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Romy the Cat
Boston, MA
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Joined on 05-27-2004
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Romy the Cat became a writer!
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https://mutationsbook.com/
As of now, only the Kindle version is available:
https://www.amazon.com/Yesterday-Starts-Tomorrow-Morning-Movements-ebook/dp/B0H72V8XKF?ref=GoodSoundClub.com
The paperback, hardcover, and audio versions will be available between now and July 7.
A Note from the Author
When Carl Jung was asked whether he believed in God, he replied, “I do not
believe. I know.” He did not mean that he had solved God as a proposition. He
meant that he had arrived, by means he never fully explained, at a state of
consciousness in which the question had stopped behaving like a question. This
book is interested in that kind of knowing. Some answers cannot be discovered.
They have to be felt. And to feel them, a person must stop lying to himself,
which is perhaps the hardest thing any human being is ever asked to do.
On July 7, Gustav Mahler and I were born.
Gustav Mahler was Mahler. I am merely another piece of consciousness trying
to declare its presence, perhaps by virtue of this book. But you have a
birthday too. It is not a trivial fact. At some point Mahler opened his eyes
and found himself here. You did the same; so did I. The rest came later.
I have spent fifty-seven years inside a nervous system that receives too much:
grief and tenderness, appetite and fear, and the small lies people tell
themselves in order to survive the morning. I did not choose this. I was born
to it.
This book is not written from a safe distance. It came into existence
through an act of self-burning. I am publishing it on the day I stop being
fifty-seven because the version of me that was afraid of his own language has
lived long enough.
It is literature: a symphony in fifteen movements, composed from the
materials of one life, transformed, rearranged, and reimagined into fiction.
The reader may decide whether the author is a witness, an Idiot, or an
idiot.
Roman Bessnow
July 7, 2026
"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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