Note: this is neither a review (critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses) of the author’s book nor one of my “Digested Reads” (in which I attempt to give both myself and the reader as complete an experience of the author’s arguments as I can manage in as short a space as possible), but an “Appreciation”— as in a quotation-heavy, somewhat-lengthy summary of and rumination upon some of the author’s key insights, but leaving out much of the particularity that make the book so worth reading. Whereas a “Digested Read” might be seen, by those in a hurry, as a substitute for reading the entire work, the following should hopefully take both you and I back to the book itself: it’s that good! Finally, unless otherwise…
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About W.D. Clarke
W.D. Clarke is a writer living in Ontario, Canada, and is the author of White Mythology: Two Novellas, which is available in hardcover, on Kindle/Kobo, and as an audiobook on Audible.com and iTunes. You can preview it by clicking on the link below:
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