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About the author

Roy Luna: Roy Luna is a retired French professor who dabbles in the arts, tinkers with music, reads heavily in fiction and history, but does not neglect biographies or science. His main efforts these days are devoted to writing a trilogy of novels based on events occurring during the years between the death of Voltaire (1778) and the French Revolution (1789-94), years rich in both enlightened human progress and dark, evil terror. Three times a week he volunteers at Dunbar Old Books, making sure orphaned books find their way to other readers. His library at home may have surpassed the 10,000 mark, and he valiantly tries to read them all… The one important thing to retain about Roy is his horror at the sins, the injustice, the atrocities, the crimes against humanity that are perpetrated and justified in the name of religion. Any belief system that condones such savagery has discarded its humanity, abandoned its compassion, and forsaken its principles of empathy, tolerance and love of one’s neighbor.


Lost Vehicles

The recent removal of the word “charabanc” from the Collins dictionary (see http://blog.dictionary.com/obsolete-words/) sent me on a reverie that included the lexicological demise of so many other vehicles from the past. Oh, we will never lose “chariot” or “stagecoach” or even “buggy” for they are firmly entrenched in literature. But…

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The Solutionists: Quest for Immortality, or, the Importance of Posterity

So, expect in the pages to follow glimpses of arcana dusted off and brought back to the light, treasures that have been long forgotten, because those who held the power were the ones who wrote the history, shrouding what they deemed dangerous, hiding knowledge that they wanted expunged from the world, or demonizing it into oblivion. The truth as it was, non-filtered and unmediated, is what we Solutionists want to retrieve from the past. As daunting as that may seem, we garner courage from the artists and thinkers of the past, and they shall speak through us again.

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On Matricide

On Matricide A Speech, by Roy Luna Greetings, fellow… Hello. Is the mike on? Hello, can you hear me? Greetings, fellow Earthlings… and if you are a member of the species Homo sapiens sapiens, fellow Parasites. My name is Ernest, Ernest Matamoros, and my subject here tonight, on this beautiful,…

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