This programmed, self-paced lesson focuses exclusively on the use of postpostions (ga and (w)o) with grammatical objects in the Japanese language without wavering or getting off track in the labyrinth of Japanese syntax and other grammatical issues.
The brief, almost bald, summation of crucial experience that attains it power through its stark reductiveness. -- Sylvia Leah Berkman
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Paul JJ Payack's metafiction has been published in more than 400 journals, anthologies, and collections including The Paris Review, New Letters, and Boulevard.
His latest published works include "Conversation With The WordMan and Other Words on Words," published in the Spring of 2004; "A Plague of Darkness," an illustrated essay about children in today's society; the the science fiction novella, "Children of the Mind: An Extended Metafiction; " "The Idea Mine: A Brief Note on Metafiction" and "Worlds to Shatter, Shattered Worlds".
Payack has spent some twenty years as a marketing executive in the High Tech arena, currently as Senior Vice President for Alacritus Software in Silicon Valley. Payack also serves as President & The WordMan of the Leading Global Language Portal.
Payack graduated from Harvard University where he studied comparative literature, a variety of dead languages, and fine arts, having previously studied psychology and philosophy at Bucknell University.
He currently resides in Northern California with his wife and family.
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Morristown, NJ USA
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Paul JJ Payack has authored hundreds of what The Paris Review called “prose poems,” The Kansas City Star, “polyphonic prose,” and Contemporary Authors, “metafiction.
Payack's metafiction has appeared in hundreds of journals, anthologies, and collections including The Paris Review, New Letters, and Boulevard, as well as a dozen collections.
Payack’s oeuvre currently consists of some 1000 creative works.
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