Press Release: New book released with Gaia Theme
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- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:53:12 -0800 (PST)
Author, 44, Releases Metafiction Book Finished when he was 22
December 6th 2007 release date.
In the arts, there is a certain idea, sometimes called "the cult of
youth," which states that much of the great art, music and literature
is created by youth. In his early 20's, Robert Pearson was aware of
such thought and did a study of exactly why people might say such a
thing.
The idea generally says there is much wrong with civilization so we
should listen to the ideas of youth. Pearson realized that he was
growing older and would possibly outgrow some of his youthful
idealism, so he wanted to write a book that contained it all. The
book was finished in 1985 when he had just turned 22.
Pearson was a precocious reader in the years leading up to the
completion of his book. Every year had a new reading fad, starting
out with the usual things children are interested in. But by the time
he was 16, he was reading abstract philosophers and writing his own
thoughts on the Gaia philosophy, the idea that the earth is actually a
huge organism. He also read poets and spiritual writers, and tried to
keep up with the intellectuals in the public eye.
The book he finished when he was 22, which he called "Motivated for
the Cause," contained earlier poems and prose writings put into one
literary form. It is written in the rare literary form known as the
anti-novel, in a style like James Joyce's odd books Ulysses or
Finnegan's Wake. "Motivated for the Cause," was called a "work of
genius" by a local painter, given praise by the few people who read it
at that time, and excerpts from it read in coffee houses by a poet
living 3000 miles away from Pearson, but it largely languished
unpublished for 22 years.
The book tries to "wake the reader up" to see the possibilities in
life. It does this by examining various ways of looking at why we are
here in the first place interspliced with surrealistic and heavenly
poetic prose to emphasize the best in life. The basic plot of the
book is that the main character, the narrator's voice, is trying to
unify his basic spiritual faith, with being an artist and trying to
live life to the fullest. In the book the idea that the earth is an
organism, what is commonly referred to as the Gaia idea, is described
but he never leaves the reader to think this should be final
pessimistic way of looking at human life.
The book looks at the negative implications of the idea that we may
not be as high a creation as we would like to believe. When thinking
of republishing the book the author realized that some readers might
take these sections in the wrong way. There are those who hold
negative or materialistic views, and such movies as "The Matrix" and
other recent movies play off this theme. The author decided to keep
such sections in the book because he believes the Gaia idea helps us
see the connectivity of human life with the environment. The book
leaves one with feeling that to seriously hurt any part of the earth
consciously or unnecessarily is like hurting the cells of our own
body.
The title "Motivated for the Cause" is a double-entendre: it refers to
be motivated for the cause of our existence, in a sense the spiritual
quest, and it also refers to being motivated for the cause to make
life great, to be in the full of art and experience. This work is anti-
novel which means a literary form that has none of the conventions of
the novel (a definition from Webster's). This book is actually mostly
composed of poetry, but it is poetry that has been taken out of verse
form and put into paragraphs.
This book is a rare piece of experimental fiction which also strives
to uplift the soul. Beautiful language in tandem with deep,
philosophical questioning of our purpose as human beings and our place
in the universe stretches the reader's mind and delivers an important
message of virtue.
"Motivated for the Cause," (ISBN: 0-9748139-3-1) can be purchased
online at Amazon.com, by special order at any bookstore, or by sending
$14.95 to Telical Books, P.O. Box 27401, Seattle, WA 98165-2401.
Telical Books http://www.telicalbooks.com
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