NENSOKAN: MOON IN A DEWDROP
Edition: ISBN 978-80-86159-83-6
Publisher: Nakladatelstvi TRIGON
Published: 2007
Place of publication: PRAHA, CZECH REPUBLIC
Language: eng
Format: Hardbound
Number of pages: 168
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Philosophy; Culture
Genres: Essays; Personal Narrative
First sentence: I am, I suppose, in transition, a less robust, less muscled word, much less grotesque, less harsh, permitting one to be anchored still on earth, before that holy exitus we know will come. The truth is that I had been considering my age. I had been reluctant to admit this to myself until on one occasion at the noonday hour, in Prague, I was taken by surprise. Satan himself, the Archangel, passed my way. His was indeed an extraordinary vision, angelic in youth, a Jesuit in mediaeval black, long pointed shoes, black Florentine hat, and black cape with fire-red crimson lining. A stiff wind accompanied this specter fluttering through the courtyard of the Klementinum, the folds of the cape about his shoulders struggling frantically, vainly, like compromised butterfly wings, all but able to keep him on course. He brushed against me as I came forth from the bibliotheque. So I paused; gazed at his monstrous vision sweeping past, clutching his VERBUM, giddy paced, pit-a-pat, dancing over once consecrated ground, then through the postern to Krizovnicka (Knights-of-the-Cross Square) and in to the milling crowd on Karluv Most.
Description: Essays on Humanism and the Human Estate based on personal narratives, travel, and international collegial interactions. The author was born in London in 1927. After military service in the British Army, following World War II, he began university studies with Professor Alexander Baykov, a White Russian emigre who had taken up residence in England teaching Russian Economic History at the University of Birmingham. Later Day transferred to Medical College in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated as a doctor in 1955 and proceeded directly to the USA for post-graduate medical studies. He spent several years with Professor Owen H. Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Surgery. He also worked at the University of Cinncinati, Shriners Hospital Burns Center, with Professor William A. Altemeier and Professor Bruce G. MacMillan. He received a COMMENDATION from President Ronald Reagan in 1987, and the W.H.O. Medal in the same year. He taught in West Africa, Europe (Fulbright Professor), South America (Mexico, Ecuador, Chile), and in India, China, and Japan.
Notes: The Essays include two Graphic Art illustrations by Xara Papatheodorou, artist and painter. There are also symbolic "Sea Birds" traced from petroglyphs on volcanic rocks in Easter Island (Isla da Pascua) in the South Pacific Ocean. These were made by the author during a work mission to the island in 1975 on behalf of the World Health Organization - Pan American Health Organization.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: 1: The World As It Is; title: 11: Understanding The Understander; title: 111: The King, The Fisherman, And The Moon; title: 1v: Rosalita Revisited; title: v: Enigma Of The Ontological Negative; title: v1: Communion Of Non-Worlds; title: v11: Word And World; title: v111: Existential Well Being; title: 1x: Biopsychosocial Health; title: x: Of Physicians And Fairies; title: x1: Sinfonia Hotamatua; title: x11: In The Shadow Of The Bush; title: x111: Four Oaths And A Visit To The Flower Of Chivalry; title: x1v: The Brief And Solitary Life Of The Desert Five Spot; title: xv: Wild Strawberries In A Slavic Woodland; title: xv1: Stray Indian Birds; title: Exitus