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	No-Body
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In his first foray into long-form fiction, subtitled a novel in parts, theater director/playwright Richard Foreman takes the reader on a journey through the mind of a man attempting to be a poet in modern America, living as Ralph Waldo Emerson advised writers to: as a transcendental eyeball, observing the world and discovering its symbols as they reveal themselves. Foreman tells his story through a series of personas: Eddie, the Mind King, The Amateur Genius, The Suburbanite, The Hero Cadmus, Samuel, and Samuel II, each of whom has a different perspective on a surreal world, but each of which seems to be another facet of a single fragmented personality/point of view, accompanied by the same two long suffering women, Helen and Marie. The nonlinear writing style is a direct adaptation of Foreman's avant-garde stage style in plays like My Head Was a Sledgehammer. Adventurous readers are advised to just read through, and allow the effect to build cumulatively, like that of music. Then to read through again.