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Significance

by John Mark Kimpel

120 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0674; ISBN 1-55369-861-4; US$17.00, C$21.95, EUR14.30, £9.90

"Some of the items in this book will haunt your very soul." - The Rebecca Review

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About the Book Significance should serve well a reader who has loved deeply. It is an uncompromising, beautiful book. The book may be read as an intellectual autobiography, as a love story, for wisdom on music and on telling stories, and as a resolution of the problem of evil. We've enclosed the table of contents below. It is always both rare and deeply satisfying to find a book written by someone who has touched what is true. It is with great pleasure that we present the first combined edition of Mr. Kimpel's work. Contents Collected Polemics In Praise of Another's Work On Telling Stories A Story A Reluctant Character From the Tale of the Last Unicorn An Afterword: On Being a Christian A Letter (in response to a reader) In the Forest A Brief Comparison of The Iceman Cometh and The Golden Key Priorities On the Limits of Psychology About Truth On Kindness A Letter (in response to a sermon) Criticism of Another's Work Perspective Restating the Argument Once Again Letters (to C. Stephen Evans) 12/7/91 (sent 8/1/93) 6/26/94 4/23/96 Notes Discussion Q & A Practical Reminders Endnotes Bibliography

Significance is a compilation of Mr. Kimpel's earlier books: On Telling Stories, Collected Polemics, Notes, and Letters. These books were published in numbered, limited, Harrold Press first editions in 1986, 1990, 1997, and 1997. The books were written over a twenty-one year period. Reviews From a reader at Amazon: I would have assumed that a book on "the meaning of life" would be either a spoof or the work of a fool. It's probably fitting, therefore, that I find myself with the task of writing a review of Significance. There are no words for the task. Genuine authority is a rare thing. Find it here.

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About the Author The author is grateful for the opportunity, in making this edition, to have been able to add endnotes that readers have suggested would serve. A list of the author's "shelf books" may be found at www.amazon.com, Friends & Favorites, John M. Kimpel.

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Sample Excerpt

In Praise of Another's Work

"In the Rough Country," by E. A. Proulx, concludes with Jutta casting on a river whose currents of absurdity mock the games the fisherman is playing with his dream. It is a detail-built portrait unsentimentally suited to "the rough country" and yet an achingly beautiful portrait because of the emotional distance words give to the truth of human experience. Human experience may not allow the emotional distance that art can sometimes provide. Perhaps no spectators. I would deal honestly with my listener.

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(Ms. Proulx's story, "In the Rough Country," first appeared in the Spring 1984 edition of Gray's Sporting Journal, pp. 20-28.)

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