Bøger af Darryl Gopaul

Travel to different countries whose cultures are not like one's own demands tolerance and a good sense of humour. Planning the trip is the biggest thrill of such an adventure for one can use one's imagination. If you can imagine the adventure then one can live the adventure.

We've all spent time cleaning up our personal effects in attics, basements, or storage closets that are stacked with boxes and trunks full of memories and reminders of times and persons long gone by. Looking through these personal effects inspires a wide range of emotions and brings back to life the smells, sounds, tastes, and experiences of our lives. For Darryl Gopaul, this is exactly what happens when he comes across the diary from his college years at a private school in Trinidad. Instantly transported to a time over fifty years in his past, he remembers the days and events as if they were just a short time ago. A moving collection of quotations, memories, and ruminations, Gopaul's journey through the corridors of his memories and experiences is a moving portrait of a life dedicated to education, learning, and providing a positive impact on his fellow students, co-workers, and human beings. Now seventy-two years old, retired, and looking back on a resoundingly successful career in medical microbiology, the words of his fellow classmates, professorial masters, prefects, and priests come flooding back in a wave of nostalgia-and introspection. The questions he asks himself as he examines his life after his college days in Trinidad is this: did he actually put those quotes and encouraging words to use, did they set him up for the academic life that he has lived, or did the events of his life merely happen? Whether the conclusion is one way or the other, there is one incontrovertible fact he realizes: throughout his academic life, the simplicity of their good will and best wishes acted as guides as he continued on. He would meet more people whose thoughtful words of encouragement and support would motivate him, right up until his retirement and beyond. A thought provoking journey spanning a wide range of emotions, In the Twinkling of an Eye: The Change from Boyhood to Man is a stunningly poignant collection of wisdom sure to inspire.

While many of these stories deal with tales based on folklore of Trinidad and the West Indies, there is an extention into the imaginary world of outer space and what that may have in store for us.

The history of Man after evolving from the trees and leading a social life, is filled with conjecture of what happens after death. Towards this end many civilizations throughout Man''s History have constructed edifices to try and return to this pre-world or to travel to a more fitting world of paradise.In this story, a modern twist plays out in sending the ashes and piece of the departed tissue into deep space. These are the remains of a science fiction writer and his spouse of 60 plus years. On a planet, on the other side of the galaxy, the capsule with their contents are found by a highly evolved alien society. Bringing their best scientists together the tissues are used to bring the whole being back. He is returned to find his naked self in a tissue culture tank.The story uses all the current stages of laboratory stem cell research and tissue culture growth in returning a being from a single cell. Why did the deceased author wish to participate in this celestial experiment and why did he need his spouse with him? Was it his feeling that there were other more developed life forms in the cosmos? He intuitively knew that in one human life time he would never be able to find such a cosmic being, he gave himself the time of eternity?