Author: Todd
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The Wonderland Syndrome
The genre of heretofore, my latest novel, is magic realism. A literary style defined as 1) a combination of reality and fantasy, 2) the transformation of the commonplace and every day into the awesome and unreal, 3) a story of surprises, in which time and space are distorted, and 4) art depicting aesthetic subtleties and…
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En route to somewhere…
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. Thereabouts. And through the predominately dark vacuum of space surrounding us, light travels 6 trillion miles in one year. A light-year. A unit of distance, and time. On average, our planet orbits the Sun at a speed of 67,000 mph. Our star circles the galaxy at…
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Zen and the Art of Literary Maintenance
Navigating through life as a writer you will, at times, feel crushed like roadkill on the superhighway. It’s unavoidable. My advice, when this happens, is to take a deep breath, chant the philosophical mumbo jumbo (i.e., the pabulum of gurus) “life is a journey…not a destination…life is a journey…” And voila! You magically rise above…
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AI… Therefore, I Think.
Our intelligence defines us. Right? It’s what distinguishes humans from other life forms. Our ability to create things: modifying fibers, furs and feathers for clothing to protect us from extreme temperatures (and, yes, to make fashion statements); redistributing fire to light and warm our dwellings during the sun’s cold shadow; harnessing energy to propel us…