AuthorsDen.com   Join | Login    
Where Authors and Readers come together!

SIGNED BOOKS    AUTHORS    BOOKS    SAMPLE CHAPTERS    AUDIOBOOKS    eBOOKS    STORIES    ARTICLES    POETRY    BLOGS    NEWS    VIDEOS    SUCCESS    TESTIMONIALS

Featured Authors:  Armineh Ohanian, iShirley Woods, iRiley Blake, iRaven West, iDiane Hundertmark, iTeresa Walker, iJames Harvey, iJoshua Su, iR.E.E.S Blogs Linda Smith, Publisher, iDean Cambourakis, i

  Home > Mystery/Suspense > Books Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry      Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

Antoine Archange Raphael

 Follow Me  

· Contact Me
· Sponsor Me!
· Books
· Articles
· Poetry
· News
· Blog
· Messages
· 91 Titles
· 29 Reviews
· Add to My Library
· Share with Friends!
·
Member Since: Nov, 2009

Antoine Archange Raphael, click here to update your pages on AuthorsDen.


Voodoo, within the boundaries of law
by Antoine Archange Raphael   
Books by Antoine Archange Raphael
· Reflets du dimanche, livre 1
· Les merveileuses chroniques d'un étranger, Livre 5
· A stranger's wonderful chronicls, Book 5    >> View all

See larger image


Click here to buy this book!

Amazon
Lulu
Author's Books on Lulu.com

Category:  Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN-10:  0557431530

Type: Fiction

Pages: 408

Copyright: 
April 19, 2010
ISBN-13: 9780557431533


As far as everybody was concerned, Theodore Merlin's stomachache was a case of minor ailment, an indigestion, a bloated stomach, after having savored two mangoes out of three received as gifts from his first cousin. For the patient, his days were numbered. He had an intuition: he strongly believed that he had been inoculated with the most potent poison in the world, under the cover of voodoo. He was right. However, before dying, he made his closed friend and cousin-in-law, a lawyer, swear to avenge his death within the boundaries of laws.

This story, “Voodoo, within the boundaries of the Laws” represents a realistic attempt to dramatize the meaning of justice, as an application of rationality, righteousness, equitableness, and moral orientation to social intercourse, as the same qualities do wonders in mathematical and logical disciplines, as well as in experimental and social sciences. Justice predicates that, even if reality has shown clearly that God or Nature hasn’t necessarily created all men and women equal, however, people, in principle, should remain equal under the law. Although people with wealth and power try to step on such belief and turn justice in their favor, we should maintain that premise should express the truth; for justice expresses the desire to make social intercourse right. In other words,, each of us has equal right to live, to own properties, to entertain dreams and aspirations, to look for happiness, to acquire knowledge... This explains the reason why the scale symbolizes justice. Indeed, my right as a person and a member of society should balance out someone else’s right. If such equation does not occur this way, then, we will not have justice. No one should interfere with such existential basics, above all with a view to harming, to killing, to preventing someone from reaching his goals. Then, justice expresses the rigorous respect for the individuals’ right.  



Excerpt

Traditions are types of behavior which belong to the past, which are kept and actualized by us regardless. And to maintain them alive, we msut impose them through violence, persuasion and all kinds of insidious ways. Why? We belong to the present, and our traditions thrust their roots to the depths of past. We have immediate and actual needs; traditions respond to outmoded needs.
Ref. page 60


Want to review or comment on this book?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?

Reviews for "Voodoo, within the boundaries of law"

Reviewed by Antoine Raphael 5/15/2010
Popular Mystery/Suspense Books
  1. Jane's Buns Mystery: The Missing Ingre
  2. Avenging Dixie
  3. Silent Obsession
  4. Deadly Blood, A Stan Turner Mystery
  5. A Major Hurdle
  6. The Mystery of the Lost Avenger
  7. Calamity at Kryme Cottage
  8. Murder in Humboldt
  9. Troubled Water (Kindle Edition)
  10. We Were Warned
  11. A Wicked Design
  12. Starting Over in the Past
  13. Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide Tha
  14. The Charabanc of Death
  15. Sweet Cream Ladies, Ltd.
  16. Troubled Water
  17. Diamonds in the Dumpster -A Silver Sis
  18. A Canterbury Crime
  19. Bullet in the Chamber
  20. Fantasies Are Murder
  21. Ripoff
  22. Chase's Return (Clear Creek Series # 2
  23. The Madonna Ghost
  24. Looking Up (Rookies Series # 1)
  25. Terror in a Teapot - A Silver Sisters

Free Book Review Program
Select a book to read and review today!

Campground Corpse by Beverly Owens

Taylor Reigler moves to Indiana in order to reopen a campground she inherited. She finds decades of grime, waist high grass, and a few resident ghosts.  
Member BookAds

Scammed by MORGAN ST. JAMES

Revenge is Fun series. Millions of dollars are missing from the Venice Canals HOA and so are the Vice President and Treasurer. Were they kidnapped? Where is the money? Twists galore and a surprise ending with humor along the way.  
Member BookAds

The Great Brownie Taste-off [A Yolanda's Yummery Cozy Mystery, Book 1] by Lisa Maliga

Yolanda Carter dreams of owning her own bakery. Employed at a cat shelter, she stumbles across a scheme that threatens to close it down. Will her delicious brownies save them?  
Member BookAds