John Roehling

The Eventual Survival Of The LaCunnas (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In an atmosphere at a moment in our own prehistory, wrapped inside a contemplation on the nature of evolution, we are invited into the lives of two species of herd animals coping with the climate change of their day. Facing the extinction of one herd less able to adapt, how they muddle through mirrors the spectrum of our own day-to-day lives. Might they be our distant ancestors? Perhaps also our survivors? Might these beasts provide a better template for confronting extinctions in our time? Even our own. Long bridges of evolution we view in the span of Eras were instead crossed in precise moments of lightning-bolt epiphanies, sparked by absurd conclusions of ridiculous logic, odd mammalian behaviors, and eternal wisdom. The bridges culminate with two nondescript, individuals, one from each species, bonding, living, and in the end dying--creating, or re-creating the near root of civilization. We are left with the perhaps actual, impossible, artifacts from those moments of beginning; when our own species might have, again, departed on its separate rail, a time far more distant than deep paleontology yet knows. In that meantime, we glimpse into the middle of the Epoch previous to our own; to a world in spite of itself more gracious and ethereal than, we in our advanced state, are in now. A droll and ordinary world for a moment beguiling, beautiful, and content. We can reflect, but cannot go back. Perhaps we will be there again in another Epoch after our own Era. Or sooner.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Roehling
• Seitenzahl: 52
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780998604114
• Artikelnr.: 49700195

Autorenporträt

About the Author JOHN ROEHLING was born some time ago in Colorado. He received a BFA in painting and sculpture from Boulder. While at Boulder, John also completed the entire writing portion of the curricula in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offered to any student at that time. John pursued his eventual degree and writing classes while enrolled in the College of Engineering. John became an architect registered in Colorado where he and his wife Dianne still live with twin early twenty-something sons, gone wandering. Like many of us with a similar bent caught up in the milieu of life, that writing portion of his education became neglected. As a corporate architect, he wrote some white papers and position papers over the years. And there was that novel started that still sits on a shelf somewhere. Now in the more contemplative part of life, John is picking up that neglected wish with an extended short story from something that seems out of childhood. We shall see what happens.