From the Author:
Well ... please allow my characters to speak for me.*"The music's played by a madman. But we have to dance anyway."---Pilot Officer (later Wing Commander) Roger Finlayson*"A human being is never a commodity. Not for any reason, not under any circumstances."---Mrs. Virtue*"It's simple, as far as I'm concerned. Human beings were meant to move, and we were meant to solve problems. The more interesting the problem, the better. I really don't understand why so many people walk around so bloody lost and confused all the time."---Rivka Morgenstern.*"Mr. Ong, we surely agree that intolerance is one of the ugliest things about our species. It must be viewed as one of the underlying causes of two world wars, just for starters. And over the years my definition of intolerance has become this: being too foolish to understand that we are all in the same boat--the one that's currently sinking, I might add--and are best served if we work together to keep it afloat and on course."---Archibald St. James Spottisworth-Gack*"You don't sell to consumers. What kind of word is that, anyway? Do you really think people only want to consume? For a time, maybe yes. But eventually, most of them realize that their closet is full. Their cupboard is no longer bare. Their end tables are quite thoroughly knickknacked. And what do you think they want, when they come to this realization?"---Pilot Officer (Later Group Captain) Aloysius St. James Spottisworth-Gack
About the Author:
I was born and raised just outside of Philadelphia. I attended Marple-Newtown High School, Muhlenberg College, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and then a splendid residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center. I entered dental practice and started gleaning lessons from many people, including numerous and diverse patients over the years. At the same time, I marvelled at the power governments, corporations and the media have over our lives, and at the way they shape our world. I wondered—are we powerless in the face of humanity’s great creations? Are we at their mercy? And an even more important question arose—is it morally defensible to treat human beings as interchangeable, anonymous, disposable cogs in an industrial, government or military machine? And then one day, all the things I had learned led me to two powerful conclusions: The Status Quo exists for a perfectly good reason—to be smashed to bits at rather frequent intervals. The best way to fight a vast, anonymous and often brutal system is through connection, personal engagement and ... simply being human. And then I started writing.
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