{"product_id":"2940046533637","title":"Tales of Revelation and Despair","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are stories that have their own process embedded within them. Tales of Revelation and Despair is one of these. I had to wait to live through the next experience before I could begin to write about it, and when i did, each story was not intentionally translated in its telling, but simply the way I had recorded my experience, as a story. Tales is volatile and unique in the sense that the reader experiences each revelation and each despair as I experienced them. I don't know if I will ever stumble upon creating another collection quite so honest and cathartic.\u003cbr\u003eThe Tales of Revelation were born among the cemeteries, gypsy camps, and underground passageways of Paris, where I lived alone on sabbatical, holed-up in a tiny apartment in Montmartre. Revelations are visions, imaginary projections which exist before action. They expose our deepest fears and desires in their most perfect form. Dreams, wishes, unwieldy passions--these are all gifts of revelation. The first seven tales are enactments of these revelations in their various forms. They touch on the physical and spiritual bodies, the masculine and feminine, the sexual and intellectual, life and the imagination, the natural and supernatural, among other tropes.\u003cbr\u003eSomewhere between revelation and despair is the action, which needs no elucidation.\u003cbr\u003eBeyond revelation and action, however, is despair, the end or near-end of a particular vision. Despair is among the many results of actions begun at the glorious height of revelation.\u003cbr\u003eThe Tales of Despair were written in the desert, three years after my return from Paris. Despair is the space where vision and action accumulate. If revelation is the ideal, and if action is the attempt at materializing that ideal, then despair is the product of the two, whether or not the attempt succeeds or fails. In Despair is loss, the fallen ideal, the imagination that could not be fleshed out. In the rare case of ideal and action being equal to each other, despair is what comes at the height of fulfillment, another end. Despair may be the disappointment of a revelation never actualized, or fallen short of expectation; it may be stasis, the inability to move past a trauma; it may be the struggle met with day after day, to no apparent end; It may take the form of disillusionment, of naivete exposed, of a nature which struggles to manifest itself in spite of social acceptance, yet remains a taboo.\u003cbr\u003eIn spite of its devastation, despair may be a rarer gift than the rapturous heights of revelation. In all the suffering of loss and unknowing there is substance. And because the choices made and the ones who stay beyond despair, all were done by force of will and not through some default of fateful injunction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desirèe C'est Moi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108549050608,"sku":"2940046533637","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940046533637_p0.jpg?v=1763694496","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940046533637","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}