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Doubles in a Game of Chance
THE SIXTH PHASE
After the Fall of the Republic, the Waning of Government, and the Collapse of the Bureau of Entitlement which was a degenerate form of Kapitalism that amalgamated all corporations into a single ruling class whose sole purpose was its own enrichment, the logical development is the Sixth Phase of Civilization. In its early days the Sixth Phase will open the door to Utopia.
After the Fall of the Republic, the Waning of Government, and the Collapse of the Bureau of Entitlement which was a degenerate form of Kapitalism that amalgamated all corporations into a single ruling class whose sole purpose was its own enrichment, the logical development is the Sixth Phase of Civilization. In its early days the Sixth Phase will open the door to Utopia.
156 pages, Paperback
First published April 28, 2015
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About the author
Jack Remick
41 books37 followersNovelist, poet.
Author of--
No Century for Apologies: Short listed for the Hoffer Grand Prize 2023
Citadel, the novel
Blood
The California Quartet:
The Deification--Book One
Valley Boy--Book Two
The Book of Changes--Book Three
Trio of Lost Souls--Book Four
Gabriela and The Widow (Winner "Best Women's Fiction" Orangeberry Virtual Book Expo; Montaigne Medal Finalist; Book of the Year Award Finalist)
co-author of The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery (with Robert J. Ray)
Satori-poems by Jack Remick
Doubles in a Game of Chance--a novel about a bureaucratic nightmare and a lost protagonist on a thankless quest.
Author of--
No Century for Apologies: Short listed for the Hoffer Grand Prize 2023
Citadel, the novel
Blood
The California Quartet:
The Deification--Book One
Valley Boy--Book Two
The Book of Changes--Book Three
Trio of Lost Souls--Book Four
Gabriela and The Widow (Winner "Best Women's Fiction" Orangeberry Virtual Book Expo; Montaigne Medal Finalist; Book of the Year Award Finalist)
co-author of The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery (with Robert J. Ray)
Satori-poems by Jack Remick
Doubles in a Game of Chance--a novel about a bureaucratic nightmare and a lost protagonist on a thankless quest.
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February 25, 2018
Doubles in a Game of Chance
Dawson is lost much of the time—not a rare condition in the country of Armendria, as the Kapital seems modeled after an M.C. Escher drawing. He seeks impossible moving targets; the truth, justice, love, a mad genius, a particular office, a working toilet. His logic flows like that of the Sicilian in “The Princess Bride”, with the classic blunder being not a land war in Asia, but fighting the Ruling Class. Dawson is a privileged insider sympathetic to those wanting in, but lacking opportunity to help them—or so it seems.
As Dawson navigates the bureaucratic soup of acronyms, the picture of his world develops. The exploitation of public nature to its ruin, and privatization of all nature that remains clean and pure. Obfuscation of government’s role and society’s duty, the near slavery of immigrant laborers, the failure of the educational system.
Like Chance the gardener in “Being There”, Dawson ends up at the right place at the right time; like Maxwell Smart battling KAOS, he is underestimated at the Ruling Class’s peril. Dawson is lucky in lust and love, a hopeful and noble ghost in the machine for remaking the world.
Dawson is lost much of the time—not a rare condition in the country of Armendria, as the Kapital seems modeled after an M.C. Escher drawing. He seeks impossible moving targets; the truth, justice, love, a mad genius, a particular office, a working toilet. His logic flows like that of the Sicilian in “The Princess Bride”, with the classic blunder being not a land war in Asia, but fighting the Ruling Class. Dawson is a privileged insider sympathetic to those wanting in, but lacking opportunity to help them—or so it seems.
As Dawson navigates the bureaucratic soup of acronyms, the picture of his world develops. The exploitation of public nature to its ruin, and privatization of all nature that remains clean and pure. Obfuscation of government’s role and society’s duty, the near slavery of immigrant laborers, the failure of the educational system.
Like Chance the gardener in “Being There”, Dawson ends up at the right place at the right time; like Maxwell Smart battling KAOS, he is underestimated at the Ruling Class’s peril. Dawson is lucky in lust and love, a hopeful and noble ghost in the machine for remaking the world.
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