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Reviews for February 2016
Above the Horizons by Rodney Neu
Alien Mysteries by Robert Kriete
As God is My Witness by Ann Haydon
Driller by M. S. Holm
Festival of Insignificance, The by Milan Kundera
From Meaning to Desire by Douglas Uzzell
From Mrs. to Ms. by Rita Magalde
Goose Feathers by Robert Koermer
Grace Period by Melinda Worth Popham
I Came - I Stayed by Arlene Sollis
Living in Two Dimensions by Cindy Kinjo-Hardart
Real You Is Immortal, The by William F. Pillow, Jr.
Spirits of the Plains by Daniel G. Matuzas
Stalin's Feisty Guest by Marjorie Hope
Sweet Harvest by Andrea Pinkey Ferguson
War Wounds by Zakary Scott
York Street by Jan Walter
 
 
 
 
 
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The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera

With The Festival of insignificance, Milan Conferee completes a series of short philosophical treatises loosely shaped around a fictional narrative involving the life, and mostly thoughts, of characters converging on a cocktail party. The party is a fraud, as it is to honor a man who has lied about a terminal illness. The internal monologues that dominate the narrative become a metaphor for the beauty of insignificance. Insignificance, asserts Conferee, has real value in life and love. It carries our attention and amounts to a life lived, while brilliance can be useless in everyday applications, shunned and feared by many, thereby alienating a soul. Indeed, much of life is pointless, and very few have the capacity to assert their will into concrete existence. 

 
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