Bøger af Hank Youngman

"... our culprit is indeed a relative of the Lernaean Hydra, that, having lost one head called Ignorance (no doubt to a thoughtless decision), has had its special power result in Stupidity and Cowardice." Pythagoras of Samos professed a mathematical core at the center of reality. He was a brilliant philosopher and such was his belief. The intellectual sympathies of the modern man align themselves to a similar mode of thought. The modern man, however, despises philosophy and holds himself above belief.It is a curious inconsistency. Pythagoras sought meaning through the study of mathematics - the modern man does away with it in the name of statistics. In this introductory essay, the author explains the structure of our conceptual prison, the danger of its illusion, and the circumstances surrounding its creation - ideological, practical, and personal. Through an elaborate metaphor of crime, toymakers, and an asylum, Pythagoras' Prison is written to illustrate the modern fallacy and to refocus the purpose of thought on to its original trajectory.

And I wrestled with reeds in perilous bogs,I've set fire to weeds and snuck up on stalks.I've walked through meadows all covered in sand,I've planted my seeds in infertile lands. The Chapbooks Trilogy is a printed collection of the three books in the Chapbooks series, featuring a total of 50 poems and three critical essays on the subjects of verse and culture. Ambition, in Vain is a poeticized account of the disillusion of curtailed ambitions in the emergent culture of the 21st century. Melancholic, at times cynical, and on occasion humorous, Ambition, in Vain aims to illustrate and communicate the reality of the new zeitgeist in an intellectually stimulating medium.Songlets is a poetic discourse on coming of age, ideological convictions, modern culture and its impacts; psychological, social, and historical; 20 sonnets with a diversity of subjects and themes, united in form and their poetic scope.Chapbook #3 concludes the series with a variation in form, and a subject matter laden with enduring, temporal, universal, and subjective motifs; aware of a spiritual reality, yet just shy of esoteric. The mood combines the serious with the expressive, and the continuity in focus portrays a spectrum between optimism and bleak lucidity.Written for an educated audience, The Chapbooks Trilogy is a somber yet hopeful account of a reality which prosaic character becomes enlivened by the lyrical narrative employed to explore, understand, and communicate the unexplored, misunderstood, and the unheard.

"It was not a sad place. It was a candid place; a place that showed life's epic conclusion in its prosaic reality, an unflattering testimony to time's tyrannical course over all of its subjects: if temporal, then temporary." Investigating a minior crime, a young recruit stumbles upon a piece of forgotten history. The phrase A RIGHTEOUS AGENDA is etched on medieval tombstones without a discernable pattern.The mystery becomes an obsession for reasons he cannot explain, and his pursuit for an answer is hindered by a villain who seems to know more than he lets on.As the officer endeavors to uncover the meaning behind the RIGHTEOUS AGENDA, he stumbles across a sinister plot and a crime which scope he cannot fathom until it is too late. "Because, without closure, things don't get to end." A modern novella written in the style of Checkov's short stories, A Righteous Agenda is a work of mystery, suspense, and light satire that aims to provide an intriguing set of characters and events with a twist that is subtly foretold yet remains just out of grasp until the conclusion.