A sexy novella about the meaning of his life, on which Jim reflects after a loss.
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M.R.M. Parrott's sense of style and form is sophisticated, while not resorting to esoteric images and long passages. The feeling after reading To Lie Within the Moment is that the characters become living, breathing, people, and the author leaves you wanting to hear more and more about them.
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Moment was the happy result of my earliest attempts at novel-writing, taking off from "Daffodils" and "The Painter of Modern Life" (in Another Generation Cometh), but it was also a whole new experiment in short fiction. Essentially, To Lie Within the Moment, is one long prose poem as much as it is a short novel. It's set on the Gulf Coast, with Jim, Mary and Anna, illustrating the meanings of their lives as a way of illustrating mine. Jim is in some ways my ideal self, while his wife Mary represented someone close to me, everything I would rather avoid in women, with Anna as an ideal woman of talent and passion. There are many broken conventions and expectations in this ultra-sexy read, now re-released on Kindle with a retrospective, "Publishing Within the Moment".
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I've always been inspired by writers whose creative integrity far outweighed the fleeting market concerns of the publishing business. Toward that end, I have written and released each of my books independently of agents and "big publishers". rimric press - one of the first independent publishers to be listed with Barnes & Noble - was launched in 1997 with this rather classical independence and literary inspiration in mind. I certainly hope you enjoy my work, from my experimental beginnings to fully-fledged series. Please join me in celebrating the new wealth of independent writers, as we gradually join our friends, who through their artwork, music, films, and publications, remind us of the value in creative independence :)
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M.R.M. Parrott's written work is independent and does not fit within the traditional areas of American academia or the commercial traditions in the "New" South. Deeply influenced by the Ancient Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, as well as the European side of Modern Philosophy, much of Parrott's work has focused on Immanuel Kant. Studies of Kant, along with Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, and new treatises on metaphysical issues, describe a Dynamism based upon the beauty and fallibility of individuals and societies and the infinite complexity of the Universe. Ethical principles, for Parrott, are built up through the development of the social animals, derived from and applied to interpersonal situations.
Parrott's fiction and poetry works are often hybrids of many forms and traditions, where he has explored themes of "affluent decadence" and individual loneliness, time travel and scientific triumph, backdrops of "timeless" love and familial belonging. His prose is influenced by Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Jane Austen, and his novella, To Lie Within the Moment, shows influences from Greek Mythology, Plato, and Contemporary Philosophy, along with nods to Mrs. Dalloway, Moby Dick, Albert Camus and Marcel Proust, and thriller films. In his Timeless Trilogy, works rooted in ethical dilemma and futuristic economic and geo-political theory, Parrott comments on causal paradoxes and Quantum Entanglement, present and future World Politics and History, and numerous Science Fiction ideas, with direct structural allusions to Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Aeschylus' The Oresteia Trilogy, and films such as the Peter Jackson-filmed Lord of the Rings. In Poetry and short stories, there are daring, lyrical, sometimes intentionally incoherent or juvenile, sometimes restrained and erudite forms and tales. The many varied literary snapshots within his freeform Chapbooks of poems and stories stand beside high criticism and seeming flights of fancy.
About the Books
M.R.M. Parrott's written work is independent and does not fit within the traditional areas of American academia or the commercial traditions in the "New" South. Deeply influenced by the Ancient Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, as well as the European side of Modern Philosophy, much of Parrott's work has focused on Immanuel Kant. Studies of Kant, along with Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, and new treatises on metaphysical issues, describe a Dynamism based upon the beauty and fallibility of individuals and societies and the infinite complexity of the Universe. Ethical principles, for Parrott, are built up through the development of the social animals, derived from and applied to interpersonal situations.
Parrott's fiction and poetry works are often hybrids of many forms and traditions, where he has explored themes of "affluent decadence" and individual loneliness, time travel and scientific triumph, backdrops of "timeless" love and familial belonging. His prose is influenced by Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Jane Austen, and his novella, To Lie Within the Moment, shows influences from Greek Mythology, Plato, and Contemporary Philosophy, along with nods to Mrs. Dalloway, Moby Dick, Albert Camus and Marcel Proust, and thriller films. In his Timeless Trilogy, works rooted in ethical dilemma and futuristic economic and geo-political theory, Parrott comments on causal paradoxes and Quantum Entanglement, present and future World Politics and History, and numerous Science Fiction ideas, with direct structural allusions to Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Aeschylus' The Oresteia Trilogy, and films such as the Peter Jackson-filmed Lord of the Rings. In Poetry and short stories, there are daring, lyrical, sometimes intentionally incoherent or juvenile, sometimes restrained and erudite forms and tales. The many varied literary snapshots within his freeform Chapbooks of poems and stories stand beside high criticism and seeming flights of fancy.
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A rare talent,
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This review is from: To Lie Within the Moment (Hardcover)
This book is one of the best examples of literature I've ever read.The characters are well-drawn and their motives are clear. The plotis complicated but rewarding, and the use of language is nothing shortof mastery. Many people will not understand this book, since it iswritten for those of us who read above a 6th grade level. AnotherAmazon review of this book seems to have this problem. Not all booksmust have short sentences, monosyllabic words, and color pictures.Parrot's work is a cut above. Here is a rare talent whose first novellooks to be a harbinger of things to come.
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