Sinjon's Other Eye

This is a gentle book, which speaks very much of our emotionally turbulent times. It seems to many of us that since that day in 2001 when we became vulnerable to fear, things have changed in our world. By the time this book was created, 2010, things have not greatly improved, and, in some cases have gotten worse. In the United States, we have managed to elect a black man as President, which does not absolve us from our former treatment of the thousands of humans held in slavery in our past, but does mean that we can learn from our mistakes and move onward. History will determine the legacy of this President, and we will be judged for our choices. There will always be consequences for choices we make, as individuals and as a people. Some consequences are more apparent than others are.
Sinjon's Other Eye is an exercise in the deeper aspects of the human condition as experienced by a person named Sinjon who was introduced in the novel, Sinjon's Eye. That novel spanned the time from around 1970 to 2001. In many ways, Sinjon is the embodiment of the souls within and among his actual body and body parts. He exists within a veil that separates dimension from dimension and invariably becomes of victim of this multiplicity. In this work, he is many others within himself, and they within him.
Obsessed with women, and believing that the female of our species is the embodiment of all that is holy, Sinjon finds all representations of values in the female form, in this case a character named Woombah, the Other, as he himself, and his god, Fred, fade in and out from male to female and back again. This shared experience, where Sinjon is in terms of The Great Distinction, (gender) causes him unending consternation, as a religious representative and as a servant of his god. He is plagued with not being able to make up his mind about how to address these issues, but this is part of his charm and his greatest weakness. He is of the flock of the meek who shall inherit the Earth, and this is his greatest strength.
Sinjon is frightfully human, and his bizarre experiences, which some say are in his head only, manifest themselves continually, typically at the most inconvenient times. Those around him create enigmas and puzzling records of his cosmic events including those involved with his personal god. Sometimes, he is serious, but his insistence on finding answers to great questions is eroded away by sleep complications, gossamer dreams, his self-protecting sarcasm, flights of fancy and his bewildering visions. Are his people real? Do these events have anything to do with reality? Perhaps.
Sinjon's Other Eye, as a book, is clearly controversial and quite irreverent. It treats volatile aspects in a respectful way, but confronts institutions with sarcastic humor and direct approach. There is suggestive language, and there is sexually oriented innuendo throughout. Verse and dialog abound. Characters are representational and make statements of their own. It is a complete experience, or so 'they' say.

"Left is only a reflection of right, unless it's wrong."