Dale Estey's Writings
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Sep.23.2010
UM PA PA! UM PA PA!
This noise assails ST's ears, as he attempts to forge through the clogged streets, and packed alleys, of Munich during Oktoberfest. Tuba sounds are not the most appropriate music to end a day. Yet, this is what accompanies him in the twenty-second hour of Saturday. This, and the thousands upon thousands of revellers, all apparently...
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Jul.26.2010
Red Room Original
Yes, I was wearing my Kafka Tshirt . I am, indeed, a Kafka fanatic. That the world press and internet are awash about new Kafka manuscripts being discovered is just gravy.
My Kafka Tshirt has a caricature of Kafka (complete with big ears) and a text from one of his letters on the front. I have warn it since it was purchased in Prague last summer. Worn it...
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Dec.09.2009
Novel Excerpt
Cepa Cannara is the official spokesperson for Cannara International Conglomerate. He is also the unofficial historian of the company, and – more importantly – the Cannara family. He downplays the former, and denies the latter. “We don’t look at the past,” he says. “That’s not where we’re going.
I press Cepa Cannara with the obvious – for instance, he is...
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Dec.09.2009
Novel Excerpt
QUARTO XI
26 November 1916
What I desire, and what I expect, are horrible opposites. But my desires still exist, which makes me a fool.
The reading in Munich two weeks ago was a disaster. But we learn from disaster. My work was called "repulsive" - which, of course, it is. Am I to learn from that? And then the meeting with Felice. The fight in the...
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Jun.25.2009
"Christ! This is madness."
Even behind the mask he wears to protect him from the dust and smoke, Bill's voice is not muffled.
"It's too dangerous. You know that."
"Darkness bleeds into light." Mr. S. is poised on a pile of rubble. "They demand to see both." He removes his mask and speaks clearly. "...
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Jun.05.2008
ST is famous.
He is known by just his initials, with no period after the letters. S and T have been fastened to him by the popular press. It is shorthand for the reason he is famous.
Space/Time.
ST's breakthrough to the understanding of Space/Time, and his ability to explain this knowledge to make it accessible, have made him a modern day...
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Jun.05.2008
The Baby is dead.
Agnes fully knows this, yet she must remind herself each time it cries.
Each time she goes into a particular room, or enters a certain corridor, and the long-dead baby sobs in the distance, her first reaction always is to help.
Even though she has worked in this building for years, and heard enough stories of what happened while it was an...
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May.28.2008
QUARTO XI
26 November 1916
What I desire, and what I expect, are horrible opposites. But my desires still exist, which makes me a fool.
The reading in Munich two weeks ago was a disaster. But we learn from disaster. My work was called "repulsive" - which, of course, it is. Am I to learn from that? And then the meeting with Felice. The fight in the...
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Short Story
May.24.2008
The elephant was a curious pachyderm, and followed his persistent quest with a guileless intensity.
"More lucky than smart," said some of the other elephants, as he blundered his way toward another piece of knowledge. They nodded their heads in his direction with the heavy weight of caution, and warned their small ones that too much thought would make...
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About Dale
I owe my life to Hitler, though I never met the man. My father was paid to stop Hitler, so there is no conflict of interest. I was given a thunk on the back o' the head by God when I was fifteen, and within a week began to write. I haven't stopped. My first...
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