This is the Author’s Interpretation of the Ideas & Philosophy Behind “The Man” Chapter 3 In Chapter 3 The Man is in emotional crisis when he comes face to face with immortality and the hopelessness of his life. We don’t know what triggered his predicament but I...
The road into town was long, straight, and dusty. The kind of road you knew would lead to nowhere special and the reward for arriving was less than his lowest expectations. Good. He spat the word out though there was no one to hear it. First order of business, he...
Hello everyone. Thank you so much for all your comments they really do give me the incentive to keep writing. More than that, they are an important part of the blog. Today I made some slight changes to chapter 3. Most are quite minor but I rewrote the ending which I...
Panic Attack The man sat in his car; he fought the rising wave of panic. He knew this feeling very well. It had accompanied him through the whole saga. It woke him at night. It gave him hot flushes when everyone else was cold. It ambushed him before he went into a...
The Man – A Philosophical Novel The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines Chapter 3 Revised 15th September 2010 As he walked into town the Man passed the Aboriginal settlement. The houses, seemingly frozen in the process of being...
G’day Ric, I am really enjoying reading ‘The Man’. You are obviously a man of many talents. I thought I would just make a few philosophical remarks about your analysis of chapter 1. Towards the end of the analysis you pose the following question in regards to the...
