20201229 WIP Update - "Simulacra and Simulation"

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The unreal is as/ real as our reality./ Trans-duality. ("Simulacra and Simulation")

Hello good readers!

We have uploaded a mock-up of the cover for "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", our patrons have an express preview here:

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In addition to our WIP updates, we have been reviewing #MyYearInBooks with Goodreads; today's book is "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard conveys his idea of a transcended duality with complexity, yet with conciseness. The issues he presents through his philosophy, however, are a natural result of our being in such a cosmos and, despite the connotations given by the English language, are not so much a "bad thing" than it is something we can and should attempt (in good faith) to define. 

My Goodreads' 2020 #MyYearInBooks can be seen here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/goodreads-myyearinbooks.html

Previews of the upcoming "SM-SARA" HaikuPrajna Collection can be found here:  https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/sm-sara.html

While I pitch my first novel, "Perennial City", the full first chapter along with rough-chapter previews can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/perennial-city.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

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20201228 WIP Update - "1984"

HaikuPrajna

Malleable past,/ control the present, future./ The Big Brotherhood. ("1984")

Happy holidays! 

Working the second draft of "Spear-thrower", so far I have been focused on the wisps.

Today's Goodreads #MyYearInBooks poem is on "1984" by George Orwell. Another annual reread; this time, I had wondered about the methods that the Party and the Brotherhood had employed to recruit members, and if one side was a recruitment process made by their rival. Whether it was Big Brother or Emmanuel who had absorbed the conflict to transform the other into a cog in their machine, or if the Party and the Brotherhood were the results of a global war-machine, I may need another reread to figure out. 

Perhaps, in that world's past, someone at Minitrue had fixed the names from an erroneous "Party of Emmanuel Goldstein" and "Brotherhood of Big Brother" to their now-correct associations? Just a (book) theory.

Screenshot: Spear-thrower Draft Two

My Goodreads' 2020 #MyYearInBooks can be seen here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/goodreads-myyearinbooks.html

Previews of the upcoming "SM-SARA" HaikuPrajna Collection can be found here:  https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/sm-sara.html

While I pitch my first novel, "Perennial City", the full first chapter along with rough-chapter previews can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/perennial-city.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

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