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There is a puzzling quotation that opens Herman Hesse's early novel, Demian: I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings of my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

In the next chapter to the Novel of Life, Lethe rides through the city of Madrid in a speeding car and ends up at Javier's parent's condo, where the Spaniards gather to celebrate.

When Lethe refuses to return home to the States, the Director of the study abroad program offers to find him another Senora. Lethe begins to fantasize about his new Senora while his old Senora imagines his departure.

Philosophical blog examines the nature of despair, disillusionment, and disenchantment.

This week the Novel of Life brings us to glittering Las Vegas, where Lethe grows anxious about returning to the Backpacker's Inn with the older man he has been hanging out with. In a desperate move, he flees from a poker table and runs through a labyrinthine casino at breakneck speed.

Podcast fiction delivers chapter eight, Mammon's House part two. A descent into the unknown.

This week's chapter of The Novel of Life takes us to Madrid, Spain, where Lethe Bashar follows a street up to the top of a hill and discovers a small gathering of festive Spaniards. Lethe sometimes leaves the Senora' apartment at night. He has a habit of going out to buy hashish. On this night however he sticks around the neighborhood and wanders the streets nearby. Upon witnessing the Spaniards, Lethe is struck by a longing to connect with people his age.

Okay, we're not fans of the Harry Potter books here at Easy Witchcraft. Never mind that the series, which has enjoyed unprecedented marketing and therefore sales, is little more than rehashed old fantasy standbys peppered with embarrassingly awkward proper nouns. We'll also set aside the disturbingly elitist premise of inherited "magical-ness.' At Easy Witchcraft, we firmly believe everyone is born with the capacity for magic.

The Senator has been linked to another online prostitution ring…but unlike recent tabloid celebrity Guvner Elliot Spitzher of New Yoke, Senator McCane is being investigated for being the provider of paid sexual services.

When the last tree is cut the last river poisoned the last fish caught then only will man discover that he cannot eat money.

Depending on your magical intention, you should aim to work with the cycles of the moon to receive the most effective results. The three major aspects of the moon are the Waxing (or New), Full and Waning.

Llewellyn's job is to sort and search these files, divining interconnections between them and leading the mouse pointer to the likeliest prospects. It is an inexact science, to say the least-but, with history to corroborate recollections of notable avatars, it is actually less so than, say, psychology, in which my past-life regression therapist holds a distinguished Ph.d.

We had determined, by cross-referencing my recovered memories, that my most recent life had be that of Norman Hartweg, a no-name playwright from California, who was best known as Tom Wolfe's snitch for The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

While these fuel barons are diligently researching the methods by which they can continue to fleece us, a "grease-roots" movement has already emerged to free us from the petrochemical dependency the media always reminds us we have.

So, you've probably been asking yourself, "How can I help those dorks at Book of Moron get a life?"

"Then one day I went out to see a friend, and I didn't have much cash on me. This weaselly kid, who I didn't really like, came up to me and gave me this whole cock-and-bull story about he was getting thrown out of his place, blah, blah, and I was getting impatient, and I told him flat: I couldn't help him that day."