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COLLECTED SHORT PROSE of
TWO
SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
&
TALES
SIDE UP
by John O�Loughlin of
Centretruths Digital Media
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Apart from the first
two pieces, 'The Weekly Lesson' and 'The Weekly Confession', which date from as early as
1976,
all the rest of the short stories or works of short prose, as I prefer
to call
them, collected together here were written between 1979–84 in fairly
successive
vein, and demonstrate a more philosophically oriented, if not always
integrated, approach to the genre which would indicate that, in the
five or so
years during which I wrote them, I had gravitated away from pure
fiction or
even poetic fiction towards the philosophical concerns which were to
increasingly occupy me in the years to come, not least in respect of an
ideological approach to philosophy which was to colour many of the
pieces in
this collection and cause me to think of them as an adjunct to my
purely
intellectual writings. In fact, the
inclusion of an aphoristic appendix, which originally followed the
piece 'Dream Compromise' (The concluding piece in the eBook version of this title [see below]) in
what
was formerly a
separate volume, and indeed one of a number of such volumes, should
testify to
my inclination to regard short prose and aphoristic philosophy as two
sides of
the same metaphysical coin, the prose in question being anything but
story-like,
in what usually transpires, contrary to the literary grain, to be a
series of
monologues with transcendental overtones. � John O�Loughlin.
THUS SPEAKS THE SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALIST
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