The Unsecured Present

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Atropos Press

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491_9780985304270

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Two novellas written during the 3-Day Novel ContestThe Worlds Most Notorious Literary MarathonAfter Fernando is a fictional dream about the life of Ophélia Queiroz after the death of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. When a young stranger appears at her house in Lisbon, Ophélia takes him on a journey of the perfect day she has been assembling in her memory room with the poems and letters of the four poetic heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa.Crowd Theory is a twitter novella whose avatars post 140-character microblogs. Pitting individualist I_Scrivener against social psychiatrist Dr. Krishna Dhere, author of Crowd Theory, the Bible of The Collective, a dangerous intellectual game begins. The two stage a debate for very high stakes - suicide: the surrender of Scriveners identity to merge with The Collective.Between them, these novellas chart the territory between saudade - the portentous Portuguese longing for the past, and Futurism - the fervent Italian artistic movement that celebrated speed, a break with the past, and presaged Fascism.

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