Synopsis
The purpose of a journey is the experience, not the destination; thus the spirit's wanderings can be long indeed, with the only motive to spread joy. This book and the one that follows represent my life's work. I wrote Fallen Empire after completing Out of Exile, which represents my attempt to recapture the internal harmonics that flowed so freely in my youth.
As a young man I was inspired by song lyrics, and naïvely entrusted what I wrote to individuals who simply stole it. I not only received nothing but was also persecuted, which resulted in my being blacklisted while at university. During my education I discovered that the use of rhyme, assonance, and meter that comprise internal harmonics were present in the lyrics I had already written. I present the best of them here for literary purposes only--though the songs have been sung and marketed long since, they are mine. I gave away the songs that I later wrote, most notably those that appear in the 1970s film The Harder They Come, starring Jimmy Cliff.
Babylon looks like a place to leave the road, but it's a dead end. Once there, oppression traps the spirit, and the journey continues without the traveler. When the mind works a little, one thinks; when it works a lot, one wonders; but if you try to remember why, you will fail. Chief Seattle said it best, but my version is, "I will write no more forever."
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À propos de l'auteur
Ted Torgersen graduated cum laude in 1971 from UCLA with a degree in English. He is not known at all as a result of his being banned in his senior year at university for his part in clearing the name of a prominent faculty member who was framed for causing a jailbreak at the height of the civil rights upheaval. There is reason for speculation that his suppression as a writer started before that. This work is not what he would have written as a young man with a song in his heart, except for the first chapter, a collection of songs which were written long ago. Instead it contains his writings from 2005 to 2014 when it was first self published, some of which could be labeled as 21st Century Nihilism. There are also poems that deal with metaphysical themes and some that are pure whimsy, and songs that have never been produced. He divides his time between Point Arena, California in southern Mendocino county and Black Rock, Tobago WI, where some of his more upbeat pieces were composed.
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