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Tristan’s Insight

Paracelsus was the last natural healer, revered and loved by the common folk of many places in the late Middle Ages. Outcast and demonized because he did not undergo a traditional academic medical education, instead he wandered about from a young age observing the capacities of wild plants and earth substances via direct spiritual perception. He knew that poison and remedy were the same substance, differentiated only by a matter of dosage, and discerned the correct dose and preparations as if ‘demonically’.

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Mrs. Markey’s Sentient Fiddle – (scene 11)

A Novella in installments, tracing the intermingling autobiographies of a boy and a violin, spanning over a century. The previous episode is right here. To find any episode, look here.


(The protagonist posing with some old friends: a Japanese shakuhachi, A Zimbabwean mbira, and a good ol’ American jaw harp.)

(11) – Becoming Iain’s Favorite, Albany, 1901

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A-wo-el’s Lamentation

A re-imagining of the fall of Atlantis blended with the mystical visions of the Genesis patriarchal figure Noah. This scenario takes place about 10,000 – 12,000 years ago, shrouded in myth, and hence a good deal earlier than most Bible scholars (incorrectly, in my view) place the event.

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Thirty-Five (Nel Mezzo…)

The opening of Dante’s Inferno reads: ‘Nel mezzo del cammino di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / che la diritta via era smarrita.’ — which could be poetically rendered in English as: “When I had traversed midway on this life’s trail, I woke to myself alone within a shadowed wilderness, for I had lost the right and proper path that never strays.”

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Mrs. Markey’s Sentient Fiddle – (scene 10)

A Novella in installments, tracing the intermingling autobiographies of a boy and a violin, spanning over a century. The previous episode is right here. To find any episode, look here.


(The protagonist posing with some old friends: a Japanese shakuhachi, A Zimbabwean mbira, and a good ol’ American jaw harp.)

(10) – His Huge Nostrils Flared Wide With Menace, NJ, 1962

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Mrs. Markey’s Sentient Fiddle – (scene 9)

A Novella in installments, tracing the intermingling autobiographies of a boy and a violin, spanning over a century. The previous episode is right here. To find any episode, look here.


(The protagonist posing with some old friends: a Japanese shakuhachi, A Zimbabwean mbira, and a good ol’ American jaw harp.)

(9) – Humans Need To Practice!, Albany, 1898

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Mrs. Markey’s Sentient Fiddle – (scene 8)

A Novella in installments, tracing the intermingling autobiographies of a boy and a violin, spanning over a century. The previous episode is right here. To find any episode, look here.


(The protagonist posing with some old friends: a Japanese shakuhachi, A Zimbabwean mbira, and a good ol’ American jaw harp.)

(8) – Ma — It’s Johnny’s Dopey Friend, NJ, 1962

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Mrs. Markey’s Sentient Fiddle – (scene 7)

A Novella in installments, tracing the intermingling autobiographies of a boy and a violin, spanning over a century. The previous episode is right here. To find any episode, look here.


(The protagonist posing with some old friends: a Japanese shakuhachi, A Zimbabwean mbira, and a good ol’ American jaw harp.)

(7) – Rowena and the Maestro, Albany, 1898

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