Confessions of an Eccentric Old Man by Sholder Greye
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A dying alchemist’s memoir. Having lived for centuries, pursuing the truth of all things through half-baked whimsical notions, conceding nothing, progressing not a whit toward his goal, he walks proudly into whatever shall come with nary a glance over his shoulder.
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From Chapter 1:
“Be prepared for most unsettling revelations! My confessions, delivered on my death-bed, do not, in the slightest, deviate from Truth; I have nothing to hide, Dear Reader, nothing to protect. I lay bare the most dark, most secret regions of my heart; to the judgment of a stern and unforgiving world …”
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Reviewed by Jason Pettus at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP).
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Contact
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sholder & yarrowpaisley & com. You know what to do.
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Facebook Page. One may “Like” and thereby be apprised of updates in one’s News Feed.
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Goodreads Page. If you have read and enjoyed the book, please do share the good news! Rate and review, my friends, rate and review …
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Paperback Edition
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Released on March 2, 2012. [List Price $13]
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Createspace
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Amazon [Aggregate with other purchases to get free shipping]
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Barnes & Noble [Currently discounted to $9.36, also eligible for free shipping]
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The Book Depository [Free shipping world-wide]
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Powell’s Books [Price is higher here for some reason, and all metadata other than the cover image is ignored … but it’s eligible for free shipping]
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Ebook Editions
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Here. [html or pdf]
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At Amazon [$6.99 for Kindle—delivered via Whispernet!]
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At Barnes & Noble [$6.99 for Nook]
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At Smashwords [$6.99 in numerous formats; this Edition is (or will soon be) available at many fine retailers:]
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At Xinxii [$6.99 epub, mobi, pdf]
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At Feedbooks [free in epub, kindle, and pdf]
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At Softpedia [free for Microsoft Reader 1.0, this is based on the old edition]
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At Internet Archive [free in html and pdf, this now uses the updated edition]
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At etext.org [via the Wayback Machine; the original text file, uploaded 12-05-1995]
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Official Authorized Editions
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Take note, the Paperback, Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, and Feedbooks editions are the “Official Authorized” editions. The others were adapted from the original etext.org text file or from the Internet Archive edition (which, yes, is “authorized” and was uploaded by me). I was a pioneer of “copyleft,” and made the full text freely available for all to distribute, as long as attribution always remained with Sholder Greye. Which is to say, I retained copyright but waived exclusivity. Nowadays, I am using the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License.
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About Sholder Greye
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Sholder Greye lived, died, was resurrected, and may proceed through these cycles again, with no particular allegiance to temporal order, as the whim of his Creator dictates.
His Creator is Yarrow Paisley, who lives, has not died, will not be resurrected, and for whom none of these events represents a “cycle,” unless considered within the greater context of the “Natural Order.”
December 5, 1995 was the date on which a text file entitled “The Mad Philosopher: Confessions of an Eccentric Old Man,” was uploaded to etext.org, copyrighted to Sholder Greye but free for distribution by all, as long as attribution remained with the author. Well before the “Creative Commons,” Sholder Greye pioneered the frontier of alternative “Intellectual Property” models.
In the intervening time, several ebooks were produced from that text by others; and when the Internet Archive absorbed etext.org, the text became available there. When various ereaders were released, Yarrow Paisley adapted versions for them; he also uploaded an updated version to the Internet Archive.
And now, of course, with the advent of viable Print-on-Demand technology, Sholder Greye has been resurrected yet again, and his work is finally obtainable in the more durable print medium.