Parley After Life
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Parley After Life
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Author : Robby Miller
language : en
Publisher: Smashwords
Release Date : 2013-05-14
Parley After Life written by Robby Miller and has been published by Smashwords this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
"An unusual picaresque fantasy that is at times sweetly amusing and at other times deeply disturbing. This book seemed to me like The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy meets Dante. If that combo makes you faintly queasy, well, don’t say I didn’t tell you." Self-Publishing Review by Avery Hurt: a full-time freelance writer in health and science journalism. "Because he died before his time, the teen protagonist of this wildly imaginative fantasy/sci-fi novel ends up in the special part of the afterlife reserved for lost things. He is meant to wait there until his proper time to die. Wit, as he is called in the afterlife, finds himself sharing this peculiar sort of purgatory with all manner of lost things—not just children. Buttons, socks, religion (“people are losing their religion all the time, right?”) and more turn up there as well. Wit, however, is unwilling to accept that he is dead and immediately sets about trying to find a way back to his life. His adventures along the way make for an unusual picaresque fantasy that is at times sweetly amusing and at other times deeply disturbing. This book seemed to me like The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy meets Dante. If that combo makes you faintly queasy, well... As you might expect from Wit’s name, the book is filled with puns and wordplay, and twisty little jokes that veer from groaningly obvious to bits that I almost missed, sometimes getting the pun or punch line a half step behind the beat. These aren’t just one-off jokes; the wordplay is often extended, setting up an entire section or theme. Here is an example, not nearly the most clever, but one that is relatively easy to excerpt: "Term-Mights on the other hand wouldn’t bite you if you were not wood.” “Um, it’s termites,” corrected Wit. “Not in a democracy,” re-corrected Thera. “They are the power behind the throne balanced around you but they are only here for a term; they might or might not achieve anything in that time depending on the poles.” “You mean polls?” Wit asked hesitantly. “No, the Beast Pole or the Waste Pole. You’ve come in through the Waste because the Fun rises in the Beast. To put it another way, people are losing power all the time, it turns them into beasts; others are wasting power all the time, lights left on in closed rooms must illuminate something. So, like either end of a magnet, both powers parley here and it energises the Term-Mights to produce something that either power alone couldn’t achieve by itself: Cooperation." On no account should the reader let all this punning and silliness lull him or her into the sense that this is a lighthearted story. Miller keeps you off-footed by mixing a sort of childlike storytelling—including many references to fairy tales and nursery rhymes—with extremely adult themes, not limited to premature death. Many of the characters speak with an openness and innocence that would not seem out of place in The Hundred Acre Wood. Yet after establishing an almost nursery-rhyme cadence and silliness, Miller drops in deep observations about war, child abuse, inequality, and a great deal of social, political, historical, and economic commentary. But the heart of the book is an exploration of the contours of grief, particularly grief over the deaths of children. As the author puns in an afterword, Death And Other Taxes is a “grave allegory.” This e-book includes frequent links to websites that explain or elaborate on scientific points that come up in the book. For example, you can pop over directly from the text to a website about termites to find out the facts behind the Term-Mights. In one place, readers are directed to a Wikipedia site giving statistics on teen pregnancy, in another, to an academic paper on the biology of eunuchs. The story is wildly fantastical, yet these links provide frequent reminders of the real, hard-core world of modern science, as if to reassure the reader that stories of an afterlife are only imaginative means of coping with grief, lest the reader mistake them for some kind of reality. Joan Didion wrote that “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Miller is telling himself, and us, stories to help us deal with death. As Wit eventually comes to accept and understand his death, the reader comes to accept the deaths of us all." Teachers' Version notes: 32 pages / 20,000 words
Nineteenth Century American Women Writers And Theologies Of The Afterlife
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Author : Jennifer McFarlane-Harris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-12
Nineteenth Century American Women Writers And Theologies Of The Afterlife written by Jennifer McFarlane-Harris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women’s theology-making and appeals for social justice. Authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Martha Finley, Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, Zilpha Elaw, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Belinda Marden Pratt, and others wrote to have a voice in the moral debates that were consuming churches and national politics. These texts are expressions of the lives and dynamic minds of women who developed sophisticated, systematic spiritual and textual approaches to the divine, to their denominations or religious traditions, and to the mainstream culture around them. Women do not simply live out theologies authored by men. Rather, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven is grounded in the radical notion that the theological principles crafted by women and derived from women’s experiences, intellectual habits, and organizational capabilities are foundational to American literature itself.
Peter Parley S Annual
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Author : William Martin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
Peter Parley S Annual written by William Martin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with Children's literature categories.
Parley S Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1834
Parley S Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1834 with Children's periodicals categories.
Peter Parley S Own Story
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Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864
Peter Parley S Own Story written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with Authors, American categories.
The Palgrave Handbook Of The Afterlife
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Author : Yujin Nagasawa
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-12
The Palgrave Handbook Of The Afterlife written by Yujin Nagasawa and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-12 with Philosophy categories.
This unique Handbook provides a sophisticated, scholarly overview of the most advanced thought regarding the idea of life after death. Its comprehensive coverage encompasses historical, religious, philosophical and scientific thinking. Starting with an overview of ancient thought on the topic, The Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife examines in detail the philosophical coherence of the main traditional notions of the nature of the afterlife including heaven, hell, purgatory and rebirth. In addition (and breaking with traditional conceptions) it also explores the most recent exciting advance – digital models. Later sections include analysis of various possible metaphysical accounts that might make sense of the afterlife (including substance dualism, emergent dualism and materialism) and the science of near death experiences as well as the links between human psychology and our attitude to the afterlife. Key features: • Grounded in the most advanced philosophical, theological and scientific thinking • Contributions by eminent scholars from the world’s top universities • Balanced treatment of fundamental issues that are relevant to everyone • Diverse approaches ranging from the religious to the scientific, from the optimistic to the pessimistic • A major section on the meaning of the afterlife which includes chapters on fear, purpose, evil, and issues regarding identity The Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife is essential reading for scholars, researchers and advanced students researching attitudes to and effects of beliefs about death and life after death from philosophical, historical, religious, psychological and scientific perspectives.
Life Of Joseph The Prophet
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Author : Edward William Tullidge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Life Of Joseph The Prophet written by Edward William Tullidge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Latter Day Saint churches categories.
Peter Parley S Tales About Ancient And Modern Greece
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Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
Peter Parley S Tales About Ancient And Modern Greece written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Greece categories.
Found Wanting And Other Stories Repr From Peter Parley S Annuals
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Author : Peter Parley's annual
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Found Wanting And Other Stories Repr From Peter Parley S Annuals written by Peter Parley's annual and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.
A Commercial Community And Other Stories Repr From Peter Parley S Annuals
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Author : Peter Parley's annual
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
A Commercial Community And Other Stories Repr From Peter Parley S Annuals written by Peter Parley's annual and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with categories.