Merry Existential Christmas assuages those of us who bemoan holiday season. This short and smart novella is the perfect Christmas story for those who are sophisticated, savvy and grouchy on your list. This ten chapter tome chronicles Christmas from post World War Two France through the Swinging Sixties to present day at an exclusive rehab in the Malibu mountains. Every chapter is a story about seeking meaning and hope in one's life during the Christmas season. It, at times, illuminates as well as entertains. What is out there for all the over educated cynics to read (besides The Christmas Carol) during the Yuletide season? The answer, we hope, is right here.
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KNOWING THE MANNER IN which things exist: absurd and alienating in our
present day angst is a priori. The degree in which one is willing to override one‘s innate
alienation and embrace society‘s absurdity is the true litmus test of this treatise.
A cold and hard March rain had come in from the North. The unrelenting onslaught was
battering Paris with an icy incisive precision. Sinuses rang a low and unyielding pained note.
Everything hurt. Everything existed in the on going agony that we know as life. Most
denizens who peopled the amber lit, coal heated flats of Montparnasse huddled for warmth
around their stoves.
Gustav Malrausse, the eminent philosopher, had just withdrawn from his lover. He turned
on his side and gazed at his intelligent, well-read, articulate, twenty three year old ―bitter
flower‖ of the moment. She lay there reverberating in the echo of their tryst. She was
beached on the coarse cotton sheets. She lay briny and redolent like the seashore from their
love-making.
She looked over at his amphibious brown eyes. She relaxed and her cheeks rose as her
lips curved up to a happy hammock shape. She wanted to tell Gustav how content she was,
but it was imperative something else had to be relayed. She opened her mouth. He placed his
index finger on her lips. Don‟t., his touch signalled. Lay back and listen to the rain pounding
the roofs like a deluge of angry fists beating the breasts of weeping Trojan widows.
The irate storm overhead made Gustav smile. He held his mistress close to him and
closed his eyes as he was setting sails to drift off ... just for a moment to be a moment for he
too was exhausted. This instant was a respite that he so sorely thought he deserved.
―Gustav,‖ said his supple and soft Sophia. ―I feel, I should tell you something.‖
―Tell me what, my love?‖ replied a surprisingly tender and vulnerable Gustav, as he had
just rounded the bend down the delirious eddy to slumber.
―I think I am pregnant.‖
Instantly the meaning and emotions of absurd and alienating pounced in to Gustav‘s
frontal lobes. ―Why would you do such a thing to me!‖
The girl blinked.
―If there is a God,‖ exploded Gustav, ―than he will abort it, if not ... then we will!‖ Gustav
knew how to handle these kinds of things. This was, by no means, the first time this had
happened.
―But I want the child.‖
Gustav looked agape at the girl who he once thought was intelligent. ―What is wrong with
you? It is 1948, look at the world we live in!‖
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