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Paul H. Raymer

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author:Elizabeth George, Robert Coover, Charles Dickens

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Over forty plus years, Paul H. Raymer played a part in the birth of ten companies, developed more than twenty-five product lines, helped to raise three children, and is the author of the Residential Ventilation Handbook. He has gone back to his fiction roots by writing, RECALCULATING TRUTH a story that explores the blending of truth, technology, and the challenges of being an entrepreneur. In July of 2020 he published his second novel, DEATH AT THE EDGE OF THE DIAMOND that tells the coming of age story of Jon Megquire in the summer of 1979 in the fictional town of Tilley on Cape Cod. In July of 2022 he published SECOND LAW recounting Jon's disastrous attendance at a building science conference. And in August 2024 he will publish CONFINED SP ...more

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Paul H. Raymer Doors. Doors are extraordinary objects. Think of the closed doors in movies you have seen. "Don't open that door!" There is a door in the space statio…moreDoors. Doors are extraordinary objects. Think of the closed doors in movies you have seen. "Don't open that door!" There is a door in the space station that opens from the confined and relatively safe space of the station to the universe! Astronauts say it's like opening the door of your bathroom and finding the view from the top Mount Everest on the other side.
I live in an old house that has lots of doors (about 38 of them (I lost count)). Big doors, little doors, doors with glass in them, doors with sloped tops to fit under the eaves, a short door for the closet under the stairs, narrow doors to spaces beside the chimney. The mystery here are the two doors that don't go anywhere. I don't know why they're there. I don't know why someone thought it was necessary to put them there. If I open them, where will I be? And will I be able to get back to where I am now?
I have been in other people's houses with rooms they have never been in. These are not just wardrobes as C.S. Lewis imagined. They are rooms.
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Paul H. Raymer In the crazy 'real' world we are living in, I would love to retreat to Robert McCloskey's Centerburg so that I could hang out with Homer Price. I'd si…moreIn the crazy 'real' world we are living in, I would love to retreat to Robert McCloskey's Centerburg so that I could hang out with Homer Price. I'd sit on the porch and whittle a stick.(less)
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