Mel C. Thompson

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The Search For The Third Diamond (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

A handsome, successful young man who has it all is driven to boredom by the lack of challenge his life poses. Meanwhile, an elderly, homely, so-called monk, stumbles through his predictable routines. The two don't know that they are on a collision course brought about by an off-hand suggestion from an uninspired sage who's losing interest in his role as guru. Unexpected things happen as the reels of the cosmic slot machine are set to rolling in this global casino we all must inhabit. This short booklet is a planned addition to an updated version of the book now called "The Third Diamond." And that book is a planned addition to the 2022 or 2023 release of "The Triple Diamond Sutra." The epigraphs at the end of this book are also scheduled to be a part of a 2023 release of "The Scroll of Hi Nu." Because the larger version of "The Triple Diamond Sutra" is such a large project, I am releasing portions of it as separate books so as to keep making new material, or revised material, available to readers as there is yet to be certainty about the release date of the larger project.

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Autor

Mel C. Thompson is a retired wage slave who survived by working through temp agencies and guard agencies. Unable to survive in the real world of full-time, permanent work, he migrated from building to building, going wherever his agencies sent him, doing any type of work he could feign competency in and staying as long as those fragile arrangements could last. He somehow managed to get a B.A in Philosophy from Cal-State Fullerton in spite of his learning disorders and health problems. Unable to sustain family life due to depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, lack of transportation and lack of income, he lives alone in low-income housing and wanders around California on buses and trains. He began writing at the age of 14 and continues till the current day. (He turns 64 in June of 2023). In his early years he wrote pathetic love poetry until, in his thirties, he was engulfed by cynicism and fell in with a group of largely antisocial poets who wrote about the underground life of drugs, sex, alcohol, poverty, prostitution, heresy, isolation and alienation. In his fortes he turned to prose and began to write religious fiction with an emphasis on the comedic aspect of theology and philosophy. He now writes short novels focusing on the attempt to find meaning in a economic world beset with money laundering, unethical marketing, contraband smuggling, human trafficking, patent trolling, corrupt contracting and every manner of spiritual and psychological desperation and degradation. When he is not writing, he wanders from hospital to medical clinic to surgical room attempting to sustain what little health he has left after a lifetime of complications resulting from birth defects and genetic problems. When he is able, he engages in such hobbies as reading, walking, yoga and meditation; and whenever there is any money left over from his healthcare-related quests, he goes to wine tastings and searches for foodie-related bargains. Before the pandemic, he spent many years gaming various travel-points systems and wrangled many free trips to Europe. He is divorced and has no children, no pets, no real estate, no stocks nor any other assets beyond the $550 in his savings account. His career peaked in the early 2000s when he did comedy gags for a radio station and had about 10,000 listeners per week. However, currently, he may have as few as five active readers on any given day. He no longer has the stamina to promote his work and only finds new readers through ran...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mel C. Thompson
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005542955
• Artikelnr.: 69870255