Jonas Samuelle
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Ghosts of a Tired Universe
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The Jovian Spark
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The Bandit Kings of Nowhere Park (The Bandit Kings #1)
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Tele-peri-kaleido-scope
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Gunfighter's Dawn
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The Jovian Spark by Jonas Samuelle (2014-08-30)
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“We can’t just stop and die,” Call said. “I don’t intend to,” Augustus said. “But some of the men might. That Irishman is delirious. He ain’t used to such dry country.” Indeed the terrible heat had driven Allen O’Brien out of his head. Now and then he would try to sing, though his tongue was swollen and his lips cracked. “You don’t need to sing,” Call said. Allen O’Brien looked at him angrily. “I need to cry, but I’ve got no tears,” he said. “This goddamn country has burned up my tears.”
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"Terribly twee even for me, and I'm a member of its intended in-group, as a bespectacled and tweed-encrusted academic who's rather enamored of erudite wordplay, linguistic parlor games, and cryptic crosswords. Emotionally insubstantial and besotted wi"
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Doug's journeys take us back to the core of our humanity: to the wild, to the past, to those we've wronged, those we've lost, and what we hope for our future. He reminds us of what we must protect. For us desert-dwellers, the final chapters in Cabeza ...more |
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“When you've already broken the rules of the universe, fear becomes only a feeling of disconnection, distant.”
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“Dreams alone with no acts toward achieving them are useless: no dreams at all is a condition of the pathetic.”
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“As Donatello died, his essence echoed across the universe, and rolled back. It splintered into pieces of energy that crashed into the earth. The pieces broke on impact with the atmosphere, and rained down as one thousand and one lies, forty-six broken promises, and three people saying the words "I don't love you, anymore.”
― Ghosts of a Tired Universe
― Ghosts of a Tired Universe
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”
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“I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
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Appreciate being included among your friends, Jona. Your work looks interesting and seems to be well received. I hope to get to take a closer look one day when I'm not so far behind.Meanwhile, I also hope you'll consider my spiritual allegory, Song of George: Portrait of an Unlikely Holy Man. It's fiction (and experimental), but is inspired by events from my own life. Best wishes to you. Namaste, jesse
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