Love Letters of the Angels of Death - A Scrapbook

A scrapbook of the images, memories, music and other inspriations behind my debut novel, "Love Letters of the Angels of Death"

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The DNA of the novel—which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this—is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.

The Rumpus Interview With Mary Kay Zuravleff

“You’re trying to figure out WHAT IS THE NOVEL, WHAT IS THE NOVEL?”

(via therumpus)

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A tip: If someone has recently passed away in the presence of their loved ones and family priest, it’s OK to rearrange the chairs afterwards.

Submitted by Dimi, for which thanks.

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High Level Walk

A beautiful winter evening walk. Times like this I am thankful for camera phones and their powerful photo applications.

High Level Bridge, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961 (via)

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But the wilderness had found him out early...I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude -- and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating."

Jospeh Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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Anatomical sketch of the bones of a human hand. Artwork by Ken Goldman.

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A tarsand beetle (or spruce sawyer) -- nasty.  Video by Chris Hill

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Another awesome love song, this one from the 1990s, not mentioned but certainly implied in the book.  The Stone Roses, "She Bangs the Drums."

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Delays - Nearer Than Heaven

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A Lady's Slipper orchid.  Photo credit, not mine.

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An Alberta refinery. Photo credit, not mine.

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Vintage photo of the Niagara Falls Museum, for over a hundred years, it was a cache for mummified human remains from Egypt.

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Ravens at a dumpsite. Photo by Nicolas Dory, www.nicolasdory.com

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Venus and Cupid and a bunch of others in Boticelli's "La Primavera"

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Road sign art from rural Alberta.  Look out!

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Edmonton's High Level Bridge seen from the Menzie's footbridge over the North Saskatchewan River.

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Edmonton's High Level Bridge at night. Photo by Lumens Borealis www.lumensborealis.com