This is what can happen when a personal story of trauma meets the collective horror of an apocalyptic, true-life event: in this case, 9/11. No doubt many people who intended visiting NYC at that time must have circled September 11, 2001 on their calendars (it's just a random date, after all), but how many of them had a) been diagnosed with PTSD that same year, b) planned to drive from the Pacific Coast of Canada all the way across the continent, and c) were willing to do it alone? This fairly brief (approximately 6,000 words) account of one man's solo journey is exquisitely personal yet undeniably universal in its haunting first-hand observations of the monumental changes wrought by the terrorist attacks. An acute loneliness is transformed into something which, if not outright beautiful, can surely pass as inspirational.

This is what can happen when a personal story of trauma meets the collective horror of an apocalyptic, true-life event: in this case, 9/11. No doubt many people who intended visiting NYC at that time must have circled September 11, 2001 on their calendars (it's just a random date, after all), but how many of them had a) been diagnosed with PTSD that same year, b) planned to drive from the Pacific Coast of Canada all the way across the continent, and c) were willing to do it alone? This fairly brief (approximately 6,000 words) account of one man's solo journey is exquisitely personal yet undeniably universal in its haunting first-hand observations of the monumental changes wrought by the terrorist attacks. An acute loneliness is transformed into something which, if not outright beautiful, can surely pass as inspirational.

In the early sixties, before Stonewall, before hippies, even before the Beatles, the French Quarter in New Orleans was a Bohemian enclave of artists, eccentrics, and/or perverts not unlike the Left Bank in Paris. DIVINE DEBAUCH is the tale of Tommy Young blood, a gay college boy, who frequents disreputable sailor dives along the waterfront of the Quarter, enjoying his own version of "La Dolce Vita," dancing his way through an epic series of love affairs and amorous adventures. Tommy loves white, brown, black, and yellow men, painters and models, football players and swimmers, satyrs and sailors, especially young Greek ones who are still versatile. But French or Israeli mariners will do. All of them are deliciously fair game for that degenerate peer of the realm and errant knight, Sir Roger Wrighte-Rowndleigh, as Tommy has dubbed his unruly middle leg. Dancing merengues and cumbias in La Casa de los Marinos and other ecstatic choreography in a Greek sailor bar called the Gin Mill, Tommy becomes a dervish in the Holy Carouse. Through sublime dissipation he achieves a philosophy of life as the DIVINE DEBAUCH and comes to embody the Olympian Dionysus himself, god of mystical dance and revelry.

This study of character in Anglo-Irish literature starts with Balzac and ends with World War II. Topics such as Le Fanu's sensationalism and Bowen's use of ghost story conventions all mark the stages of this account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.

Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Dissolute," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Dissolute in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Dissolute when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Dissolute, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

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