![]() ![]() The quote of particular interest is where God explains to the man why the universe exists the way it does: If you haven’t read the story, read it, it’s likely to be worth your time. Every person that ever existed in the universe is this man. Not only that, but that the man is constantly going through reincarnations through time and that every person the man ever knew directly, including his wife and kids, by proxy, or indirectly like Hitler and Jesus - they have always been reincarnations of this very man. God tells the man he will be reincarnated as a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD. ![]() A man dies in a car crash and emerges in a place of nothingness where he meets God. Tallying at around 1,000 words, the story has been translated into over 30 languages by readers and is still bringing today around 100,000 visits to Weir’s website monthly. Weir’s most famous short story, however, that went through another round of popularity with the movie release and that he published on his website back in 2009 is “The Egg”. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Before long he finds himself at tournaments, socializing-and competing-with Scrabble’s elite.īut this book is about more than hardcore Scrabblers, for the game yields insights into realms as disparate as linguistics, psychology, and mathematics. His curiosity soon morphs into compulsion, as he sets about memorizing thousands of obscure words and fills his evenings with solo Scrabble played on his living room floor. ![]() Joel” a burly, unemployed African American from Baltimore’s inner city the three-time national champion who plays according to Zen principles and the author himself, who over the course of the book is transformed from a curious reporter to a confirmed Scrabble nut.įatsis begins by haunting the gritty corner of a Greenwich Village park where pickup Scrabble games can be found whenever weather permits. This “marvelously absorbing” book is “a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect” ( San Jose Mercury News).Ī former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game’s strange, potent hold over them-and him.Īt least thirty million American homes have a Scrabble set-but the game’s most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of “living room players.” Theirs is a surprisingly diverse subculture whose stars include a vitamin-popping standup comic a former bank teller whose intestinal troubles earned him the nickname “G.I. ![]() ![]() The lion’s share of this final volume is a slow boil, but while there’s more introspection than in previous volumes, Ringle provides a thoroughly satisfying thread-tying conclusion. ![]() Ancient memories from significant past lives are interlaced throughout the story, including the mystery of why the chrysomelia tree, whose fruit bestowed immortality, is dying. ![]() But this time, the Thanatos cultists have figured out a way into the Underworld itself, and they wield a magic that can be lethal even to immortals. Sophie and the other reincarnated immortals spend much of the book dealing with the repercussions of the attack and preparing for the next one. ![]() Now her home has been shattered, and her friends and family. Her would-be lover, Adrian, the reincarnation of Hades and the man responsible for reintroducing Sophie to the Underworld and her many lifetimes, is wracked with guilt over the carnage. Sophie Darrow said yes once to a young man offering a realm of Greek gods and immortality. ![]() Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. The third and final book in Ringle’s Chrysomelia Stories (following 2014’s Underworld’s Daughter) opens with Sophie Darrow-the modern reincarnation of Persephone-in shock after members of the anti-immortal cult Thanatos kill her parents and destroy her home. Immortal's Spring 1st Edition is written by Molly Ringle and published by Central Avenue Publishing. ![]() |