{"id":1616,"date":"2010-01-01T01:01:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T09:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2019-09-06T13:35:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T20:35:36","slug":"edens-dream-giveaway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/edens-dream-giveaway-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eden&#8217;s Dream Giveaway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"lead\"><strong>Enter to win a large (28&#8243; x 42&#8243;),<br \/>\nlimited edition, archival canvas<br \/>\ngicl\u00e9e print of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/img\/Eden's-Dream.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Eden&#8217;s Dream<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n(valued at $600) below!<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/img\/Eden's-Dream.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Edens-Dream.jpg\" alt=\"Eden's Dream\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a id=\"entryform\" name=\"entryform\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<article id=\"main\"><!-- One --><\/p>\n<section class=\"wrapper style4 container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<p><!-- Sidebar --><\/p>\n<div class=\"sidebar text-center\">\n<section><a href=\"http:\/\/tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image feature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Love-and-Other-Pranks.jpg\" alt=\"Love and Other Pranks\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h3><strong>BUY THE BOOK<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"btn-group\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"...\">\n<div class=\"btn-group\" role=\"group\"><button class=\"btn btn-default dropdown-toggle\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Paperback<\/button><\/p>\n<ul class=\"dropdown-menu\" role=\"menu\">\n<li><a class=\"button small\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2kxTL9U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"button small\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/love-and-other-pranks-tony-vigorito\/1125794664?ean=9780970141958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barnes &amp; 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Enjoy!<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a class=\"btn btn-info smooth\" href=\"http:\/\/tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php#excerpt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Return to beginning<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mini-mobius-e1476488302690.jpg\" width=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>80<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt is an unfortunate artifact of narration that some characters seize the foreground of our attention while others recede into the invisible background, not out of irrelevance, mind you, but out of the simple limitations of storytelling. Consider, for example, how engaged you are with the struggles of the story of your own life, and the stories of those near and dear to you, and how oblivious you are to the struggles of every other story passing you by. No less than you are they, for certain, captured in the selfsame life-and-death struggle, as a matter of simple fact, and yet, who has time to regard that?<span class=\"pullquote-right\">No less than you are they, for certain, captured in the selfsame life-and-death struggle, as a matter of simple fact, and yet, who has time to regard that?<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd look now, four pirates\u2014all of them brothers and sisters to the free spirit, all of them true to the code of equality and honor, all of them friends of God and enemies of the world\u2014four pirates have here perished under extreme prejudice. Their names were Jurak\u00e1n, Impulse, Hosanna, and Dayenu, but who in the name of Davey Jones were they? If every life is its own story, and each person is thereby their own stouthearted hero or cravenly enemy, it can only be with deep regret that we are unable to record the lives and swashbuckling adventures of every Eleusinian who once feasted their feet upon those fair sands of the Caribbean Sea. Despite these failures, as the surviving crew of <em>Eleusis<\/em> releases the remains and effects of their shipmates to the indifferent depths of the sea, let us at the least pull the deceased\u2019s index cards from the akashic records, that universal library of all experience, and salute them so long as their souls sail away across the cosmos.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nLet us begin with Jurak\u00e1n, a mestizo sailor of Spanish and Mayan descent, and a good Christian man who\u2019d tried for most of his life to make an honest go at it. Raised in a colonial mission, he believed in the teachings of Christ until the day he died, even though life had long ago dismayed him with the garish hypocrisies of his fellow Christians. Jurak\u00e1n had first encountered the Eleusinians on one of their earliest plunders, when they overtook the galleon upon which he was serving, hauling Aztec treasure from the Yucat\u00e1n to a Spanish fort in Cuba, there to assemble in a convoy for the voyage to Spain. Though their approach had been bare teeth and bloodthirsty, once the Eleusinians were aboard and all weapons had been secured, the pirates idled the morning away chattering on about the breathtaking beauty of that morning\u2019s sunrise, sharing tobacco, pointing out the schools of fish silvering along in the crystal-clear waters, and in general being the most genial people Jurak\u00e1n had ever encountered.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAs it turned out, the Eleusinians had been seeking a sparkle in the eyes of another in order to swell the ranks of their own crew, and while everyone else met their eyes with resentment and murderous intent, when they met the eyes of Jurak\u00e1n they immediately invited him to join them. Jurak\u00e1n took one last look at the corrupted souls populating his vessel, not a man among them having appreciated that morning\u2019s truly spectacular sunrise as anything other than a stab upon their collective hangover, and tossed in his lot with the Eleusinians. And never for a moment did Jurak\u00e1n regret it, having finally found among their community the Christ he\u2019d been seeking his entire life shining right there within his own heart, and when he died shielding Noa from a blast of case shot across their deck (and thereby permitting Noa to successfully light the catapult that assured their escape), Jurak\u00e1n\u2019s soul burst out of his body as if it\u2019d been holding its breath its entire life, and his last words\u2014gasped only to himself\u2014were, \u201cI had no idea how much I existed.\u201d<span class=\"pullquote-left\">And his last words\u2014gasped only to himself\u2014were, \u201cI had no idea how much I existed.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd then there was Impulse, a German adventurer. Temple von Impulse was the full sobriquet he\u2019d devised for himself, and Impulse was a bounty hunter by trade, a bounty hunter who ultimately realized the outlaws he was hunting were leading far more adventurous lives than the obese elite who dangled fat bounties over their heads and sought to enslave every last outpost of freeborn humanity. As Impulse considered adventure to be the highest ambition of the human experience, he could no longer in good conscience capture those whose only crime appeared to be the adventure of freedom. Impulse had even had Flaming Jane in his sights during the Eleusinians\u2019 first visit to Boca Diablo, and could have taken her head and collected the bounty, but true to his name, Impulse was keen on following his impulses as the surest path to high adventure, and it was just such an impulse that caused him to adjust his aim at the last second and snipe instead the daggered hand that was just then about to stab the heart out of Flaming Jane. It\u2019d been one of Half-Ass McJanky\u2019s assassins, and after relieving the assassin of his last breath and properly introducing himself to Flaming Jane and her comrades, Impulse expressed the philosophy that moved his life and wondered if he might accompany them toward a life of higher adventure.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe charm of his philosophy\u2014and the delight with which he articulated it\u2014guaranteed his acceptance, and Temple von Impulse was thenceforth known to spend his days holding breathlessly forth upon whatever topic had most recently fascinated him, having mostly to do with notions of the body as a temple and the consequent importance of consuming various kelps, seaweeds, and algae toward achieving a maximum vitality. And in between <em>Eleusis<\/em>\u2019s occasional skirmishes, Impulse had a knack for regaling in detail every random happenstance that occurred as well as how following their impulses in the heat of their battles had guided them through flawless and unscathed.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBut alas and of course, Temple von Impulse would not live to retell his final skirmish at sea, though it was nonetheless an impulse that compelled him to hit the deck just before the sweep of case shot, and another impulse that compelled him then to stand and take a shot at a sniper he\u2019d spied in the enemies\u2019 crow\u2019s nest, winging him only but hesitating the sniper\u2019s arrow just long enough for him to miss his mark upon Flaming Jane. In taking the shot, however, Impulse undefended his torso, and when an arrow thwacked through his heart, Impulse staggered to the deck, astounded that death had found him. Glancing begrieved upon the arrow\u2019s ruination of his bodily temple, the cries of battle fell faraway and fast, and as <em>Eleusis<\/em> surged forward from the release of its dragline and the snapping ascent of its second set of sails, Impulse felt his soul surge forth from its temporary temple, and as his point of view expanded he saw all at once how his impulse was true, how it saved another\u2019s life and served the greater good, how his death would deepen the hearts of his mates, and opening his dying eyes he discovered the setting sun and staring into it he saw how this moment was in fact the greatest adventure of his entire life, and as his spirit roared Valhalla he soared into that great white light, and whatever last words he might have mustered could only surrender under the fathom of his newborn smile.<span class=\"pullquote-right\">And as his spirit roared Valhalla he soared into that great white light, and whatever last words he might have mustered could only surrender under the fathom of his newborn smile.<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd finally, there was Hosanna and Dayenu, sister and brother, fraternal twins born in a Cimarron settlement in Panama, among a community of runaway slaves that took its name from a native Taino word meaning \u201cflight of the arrow.\u201d Hosanna was the older sister, born fist first, and her name expressed an adoration of her existence. Dayenu was the younger brother, born with his grip firmly upon his sister\u2019s ankle, and his name expressed overwhelming gratitude, as <em>Dayenu<\/em> is a Hebrew word literally translated as \u201cit would have been enough for us.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHosanna and Dayenu fought an inseparable tangle until the age of five, when sick of their incessant bickering one day their mother grabbed ahold of them and made them stand across from one another, directing them that they were to take turns slapping each other. Terrified, their slaps were timid and feathered in the face of this frightful maternal command, and all the more so as their mother heckled them to slap each other harder. \u201cNow why ain\u2019t you slappin\u2019 on him harder now gawdammit? Go on now, slap the crooked right outta his teeth!\u201d she goaded Hosanna, and to Dayenu, \u201cNow go on then, boy, give it to her good now gawdammit!\u201d Hosanna and Dayenu soon began sobbing under their cruel circumstance, blubbering eventually, till their mother shook her head severe and wagged a stern finger in front of their tearful faces. \u201cNow you remember this now next time you take to bickerin\u2019 gawdammit!\u201d she reprimanded. \u201cThere\u2019ll be plenty enough fools in this world that wants to fight you, and there ain\u2019t no sense to be found in fightin\u2019 on each other. Now you remember this now. You\u2019re brother and sister and you love each other more than you even understand. Now go on then now, Mama loves you now, give each other a hug now.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd their hug was tearful and true, and never again would they be found fightin\u2019 on each other, for it wasn\u2019t a year before slave traders raided their Cimarron settlement, kidnapping them and selling them both into slavery, but they were never separated and so they never failed to defend each other brother and sister. Thus it was that many years later they found themselves aboard the <em>Queen Elizabeth <\/em>when Flaming Jane organized their mutiny over Admiral Jasper. For Hosanna and Dayenu, that mutiny was the reclamation of their kidnapped childhood, and no one glared a more ferocious gaze than them as they circled their backs in battle, vowing that no one not ever again would cross the perimeter of the soul they shared.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd they kept this vow till the day that they died, when manning their cannon under fire, Hosanna and Dayenu were savaged by the sweep of case shot across their deck. Dayenu realized what was about to happen and leapt to shield his sister at the same instant that Hosanna leapt to shield him.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cBrother!\u201d said she.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cSister!\u201d said he, and neither of them succeeded in shielding the other as the shrapnel seared across their profile in embrace, and moments later when <em>Eleusis<\/em> lurched from the force of its dragon cannon firing from its bow their torn bodies toppled, Dayenu keeling overboard first, and Hosanna catching a final grip upon her brother\u2019s ankle as they fell not into the churning sea but into the luminous arms of their ancestors, welcoming them into the Garden that never once knew the sweat of a slave, and cheering their lives louder than the sun could ever shine.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\">Buy the book<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><a class=\"btn btn-info smooth\" href=\"http:\/\/tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php#excerpt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enter to win a large (28&#8243; x 42&#8243;), limited edition, archival canvas gicl\u00e9e print of Eden&#8217;s Dream (valued at $600) below! 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