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The Spirit of the Waterfall
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ISBN13: 9798366870887
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 7 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 7 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Man has always pondered the great questions of life, arriving at various conclusions and interim resolutions, all the time waiting for history to unfold even as he participates in it. This history has a beginning, logically, and also an end. This panoramic view casts the events in an apocalyptic prism that differs from religion to another. Ben is a journalist. He is preparing to go on an investigative assignment when his editor interrupts to assign him to go and investigate cases of cannibalism. He leaves to tackle it. Unknown to him he is a subject of a Biblical prophecy and is about to change roles dramatically: two intelligence agencies have worked together to design a program that will make him a writer. At the same time Martha, a nun, is also send to the same local area that Ben is going. They travel on the same bus as strangers but by the time they alight love has lit up between them. Will Ben find Martha again? Will she denounce her celibacy vows to pursue a stranger whom she has only just met? Meanwhile terrorist hit the city with a bomb, sparking panic, grief and outrage. Time and events race. Priorities are rearranged after apocalyptic schemes and the man and woman quest for one another at the same time as anguished humanity grope for answers to ancient questions.
Kulova is a middle-aged herdsman, and Kundu a younger wanderlust. Both work for a wealthy village landowner. Kundu is way past marrying age and does not intend to marry, while his mate is restless and hardly ever in one place. There is a vast forest of pine trees across an earth road in which they daily take the livestock to graze. There are times Kulova feels he can see shapes and figures in the clouds in the sky. The matriarch of the home is an ailing, good-natured woman. Cynthia, one of her daughters, spires to be a musician and owns a keyboard on which she regularly practices. Her boyfriend Peter is going to be part of her team. The pine trees are now mature and have to be cut down and carted to a paper factory. People from distant villages come to gather branches and burn charcoal, starting a small community of traders by the riverside. Mama passes away, leaving the two grieved. Cynthia is devastated but recovers to start composing a song in memory of her departed mother. Kulova meets a woman in the forest one day and the two start an illicit romance. Later she goes back to her husband, with whom she was temporarily separated, leaving him feeling morose and waking up to the ways of love. When the meet later, briefly, she exhorts him to stand up and be a man, work and trade and save, and then confides that the baby she now has was actually fathered by him. Eventually the two men start out on the road to manhood, walking its threshold, and find that it is not easy, while Cynthia continues to craft a song for mama. The story affirms the worth of human beings even in a challenging environment that denies them the full expression of their intrinsic value.
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