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(Illustrated Edition) Russell Huggins, 32, has died an indigent's death but left behind a formidable literary estate.Tom Shaw has been enlisted by The University of Maryland's Urban Archaeology Department to decipher and distill, catalogue and compile, Huggins' vast collection of single-spaced, handwritten journals and ledgers littering the second floor of Button House, a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Orchard Park, a Baltimore suburb. Is it but a case of riotous hypergraphia or does the University's adamancy suggest something else? Orchard Park tells the tale of one man's effort to scratch at the canvas; to peel away life's protective layers; to decrypt meaning from the cultural artifacts by which he is surroundedâto achieve grace through creation and redemption through imagination.… (plus d'informations)
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I, unfortunately, am Russell Huggins.
Out of relative obscurity I come, and so too shall I return to that obscurity, but only after I have taken a moment to pause, stand before you wearing bed-rags, with uncombed hair, with a three-day beard, all in order to address you, my dear reader, that I might convey a portion of those stirring morsels of thought of which I have become the recipient. And I realize that precious is the time allotted each man and woman, and that it is not my wish to detain you, to charm, to bewitch. No. Rather, it is my wish to take your arm in mine for but a few hours that we might stroll. There is much to be said and so little time; I beg your patience.
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Shaw’s days were numbered.
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“Desert this mad and unfounded obsession with the so-called truth. In pursuit of truth, you are guaranteed a long and perilous run through a semantic maze that derives meaning only from your undivided attention.” —George Irwin
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(Illustrated Edition) Russell Huggins, 32, has died an indigent's death but left behind a formidable literary estate.Tom Shaw has been enlisted by The University of Maryland's Urban Archaeology Department to decipher and distill, catalogue and compile, Huggins' vast collection of single-spaced, handwritten journals and ledgers littering the second floor of Button House, a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Orchard Park, a Baltimore suburb. Is it but a case of riotous hypergraphia or does the University's adamancy suggest something else? Orchard Park tells the tale of one man's effort to scratch at the canvas; to peel away life's protective layers; to decrypt meaning from the cultural artifacts by which he is surroundedâto achieve grace through creation and redemption through imagination.
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