An Eye for an Eye
Subtitle: Chronicles of an Obsession
Publisher: seasidepress.org
Published: 2012
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: eBook (Kindle)
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780985010409
Table of contents: title: PROLOGUE; title: I'm an old man now, living alone with a dog. My; title: active life is over, spent, and there is not much time left; title: until the always-sneaky entrance of the great extinguisher.; title: So I am in a hurry. I want to tell this story before his; title: coming and my going.; title: I'm not a writer, really, and have no literary; title: pretensions. I lack the skill, imagination, and creativity to; title: conjure tales out of my hat. This is the first, last, and only; title: one ever to be produced by me, so I do hope it is worth; title: telling and that someone will be out there, listening.; title: Not possessing a writer's wit does not preclude credits; title: in other fields, though. I am fairly well educated,; title: intelligent, of the straight line, analytical kind. I am also; title: well read, reasonably honest, at home in seven languages,; title: and, until late in life, possessed of preposterous good; title: looks, of the boyish, dark, romantic Gregory Peck type.; title: Throughout my life, women have been attracted to me,; title: often embarrassing my inborn shyness.; title: If this sounds conceited or even narcissistic, let me add; title: that while it is surely a pleasant advantage to be burdened; title: with, still it is never more than a starter, balancing out its; title: own effects by turning you careless and lazy.