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Nova Iuncta Verba Latina / New Latin Compounds

ἡ πηληκίνησις -εως / pelecinesis -is f. “pelekinesis,” “ability to control clay”   [πηλός “clay” + κίνησις “motion”; “ability to control…”]   [πηλο- + κινησι-] stems   [πηλη- + κινησι-] with Connecting Vowel η (cf. ἐλαφηβόλος)   [πηληκινησι-] new stem   [πηληκίνησις] nominative singular   [pelecinesis] πηληκίνησις Latinized

(Fons Imaginis.)

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Three worthy books for the California reader

Three books that reveal the extraordinary among the everyday institutions of Southern California.

Gustavo Arellano writes on SPD author David Allen, "one of Southern California's most underappreciated chroniclers"  at the LA Times! 

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Ah, yeah! An all new SPD Recommends! Check ‘em out!

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https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/3686096258659236837PARADISE NOW?? Paradise Gardens audiobook. Chapters 15 and 16.  Good for 18 days.  Paradise Gardens, like Huxley for this time. (The Corporate Business Estates Underground)

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Paradise Gardens, political dystopia, began in the 1980s and was finished in a final New Edition in 2017 (Pelekinesis). I was working a clerical job on a Wall Street paper, when I had visions of downtown NYC in 2250 and the purged  world of 3001. The story opens at the desk of Janet McCarthy, claims adjustor at Rudimental Life Company, part of the United Business Estates (U.B.E.) Left behind are the Unconnected, people outside corporate protection. Capitalism has devolved into the corporate feudalism of the U.B.E., where employees are conceived as Superior or Average to fit the needs of business. In 2250, after the Federal government has dissolved amid ecological breakdown, a real estate visionary, with a PR maven, sell corporate business on “Eden underground,” Paradise Gardens. Though I wrote the book, because I couldn’t get the characters and scenes out of my mind (even dreamed sequences), I had no idea any of it would come to pass. I prayed it was a fixation of my underemployed imagination. Yet here we are, almost in 2023, dealing with the described killer flus which decimate the population. As society breaks down in PG, the federal government is garrisoned under the capital against the social chaos. Now all of this may sound Matrix-like, another ho-hum Netflix dystopia but these fragments have the reality of the world we know. Perhaps we can hear this and take a different road.

The audiobook with multiple voices by the amazing Nicole Greevy, is up, 2 chapters a week at www,notanotherbookreview.blogspot.com.

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Paradise Gardens is a political dystopia, called like Huxley but for now. Begun in the 1980s finished in a final New Edition in 2017 (Pelekinesis). I was working a clerical job on a Wall Street paper, when I had visions of downtown NYC in 2250 and the purged world of 3001. The story opens at the desk of Janet McCarthy, claims adjustor at Rudimental Life Company, part of the United Business Estates (U.B.E.) Left behind are the Unconnected, people outside corporate protection. Capitalism has devolved into the corporate feudalism of the U.B.E., where employees are conceived as Superior or Average to fit the needs of business. In 2250, after the Federal government has dissolved amid ecological breakdown, a real estate visionary, with a PR maven, sell corporate business on “Eden underground,” Paradise Gardens.

Though I wrote the book, because I couldn’t get the characters and scenes out of my mind (even dreamed sequences), I thought it was therapeutic, a cautionary tale.  I had no idea any of it would come to pass. I prayed it was a fixation of my underemployed imagination. Yet here we are, almost in 2023, dealing with the described killer flus which decimate the population. As society breaks down in PG, the federal government is garrisoned under the capital against the social chaos. Now all of this may sound Matrix-like, another ho-hum Netflix dystopia but these fragments have the reality of the world we know.  

I am making the audiobook available with the idea that if enough people get what course we seem on, it may be possible to change paths to a different future. 

NEW Chapters of Audiobook for PARADISE GARDENS at www.notanotherbookreview.blogspot.com. Chapter 4 and 5 now available for !8 days.

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PARADISE GARDENS AUDIOBOOK LINK!. 2 and 3 up now. All voices from the chameleon genius of Nicole Greevey. A chapter a week, available 18 days. called "Huxley for our time," PG is a speculative future evolving fast in our present.