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Welcome to the the
COLLECTED SHORT PROSE of
TWO
SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
&
TALES
SIDE UP
Links
to the files of which follow the brief introduction below:–
Apart from the first
two pieces, 'The Weekly Lesson' and 'The Weekly Confession', which date from as early as
1976,
all the rest of the short stories or works of short prose, as I prefer
to call
them, collected together here were written between 1979–84 in fairly
successive
vein, and demonstrate a more philosophically oriented, if not always
integrated, approach to the genre which would indicate that, in the
five or so
years during which I wrote them, I had gravitated away from pure
fiction or
even poetic fiction towards the philosophical concerns which were to
increasingly occupy me in the years to come, not least in respect of an
ideological approach to philosophy which was to colour many of the
pieces in
this collection and cause me to think of them as an adjunct to my
purely
intellectual writings. In fact, the
inclusion of an aphoristic appendix, which originally followed the
piece 'Dream Compromise' (The concluding piece in the eBook version of this title [see below]) in
what
was formerly a
separate volume, and indeed one of a number of such volumes, should
testify to
my inclination to regard short prose and aphoristic philosophy as two
sides of
the same metaphysical coin, the prose in question being anything but
story-like,
in what usually transpires, contrary to the literary grain, to be a
series of
monologues with transcendental overtones. – John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
THE WEEKLY LESSON
THE WEEKLY CONFESSION
THE AESTHETICA
HANLEY'S CONCEPT
A LITERARY TRINITY
A
VISIT
TO HELL
THE RECKONING
OCCUPATIONAL SPECIES
THE CHRISTIAN COMPROMISE
AN EXTRARDINARY RUMOUR
THE TURNING POINT
CAUGHT UNAWARES
FROM THE DEVIL TO GOD
AN UNEXPECTED CRISIS
TO THE MILLENNIUM AND BEYOND
PERFECTION OUR GOAL
NOLAN'S INVESTIGATIONS
LIVING IN THE CITY
A CANINE CRIME
AN EVENING WITH PAUL KELLY
PROSPECT OF A CHANGE
EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL
DREAM COMPROMISE
MILLENNIAL PROJECTIONS
MUSICAL EVOLUTION
CONCERNING BLACK HOLES
A VERY CIVILIZED MAN
THE TWO LITERATURES
WISDOM
A PUBLIC WRITER
UNDERSTANDING SEX
SPACE PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
A PRIVATE INTRODUCTION
SPACE JOURNAL
THE SPELL
CONCERNING A TREE
MUSICAL THEORIES
TWO-WAY SWITCH
A SELFISH MAN
SEX IN THE HEAD
VISUAL EXPERIENCES
CLASS DISTINCTIONS
WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS
SPIRITUAL LEADERS
TWO KINDS OF STRENGTH
BETWEEN TWO EXTREMES
RELATIVITY
REVOLUTIONARY REVELATIONS
POLAR ATTRACTIONS
UNDERSTANDING BUREAUCRACY
A THINKER AT LARGE
RELATIVE DISTINCTIONS
DOING IT ALONE
TWELVE THINKERS
FREE-ELECTRON SEXUALITY
A VERTICAL INTEGRITY
CREATIVE EXTREMES
FOR TRUTH
LEADER'S TRANSCENDENTALISM
A TRUE EXTREMISM
A PERMANENT CROSS
MORE PLASTIC
SUPERNATURAL UPGRADING
CENTRIST SEXUALITY
WRITERLY PRINT
SUPERNATURAL TRAVEL
SIX THINKERS SPEAKING
FIVE SPEECHES SUCCEEDED
THUS SPEAKS THE SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALIST
APPENDIX: APHORISMS
All files Copyright © 2012 John
O'Loughlin
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split
he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with her daughter upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in
Aldershot, Hampshire and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother, Carshalton, Surrey. After leaving high school in pre-GCSE era 1970 with an
assortment of CSEs
(Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs
(General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved to London and went on, via two short-lived
jobs, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford
Square, where he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland.
After a brief flirtation with history-orientated further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of factors, left the Associated Board in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer-cum-office-skills tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and
early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since, penning (in addition to collections of essays, short prose, dialogues, etc.) some 150 original titles of a mostly philosophical nature.
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