The Sublime Heights of Generous Passions

About the Book

A fate impregnated of unspoken prophecies, a phenomenal tour de force - to properly speak - a tour de force commanding a favorable manipulation of the things of life has brought together what nature has created to live in harmony and that all egocentric human conventions tend to shamelessly set apart through racial pretexts and irrelevant schemes.

On a propitious stage - laid by Providence, supreme architect, unforeseeable genie of organization, as by enchantment, as by an imperious necessity, as if nature wanted to impose its supreme will in the intimacy of human affairs - are joined two destinies dressed for the conquest, the mastery and the triumph of life's noblest sentiments. In an exceptional situation arranged by a circumstance of the most unaccustomed came to life one of the most striking episodes of life sagacious occurrences promoter of those sentiments that are said to be too beautiful to be true. Two human entities joined wisdom, patience and stubbornness to ensure the triumph of the most powerful because the truest and the purest sentiments of life.

Gustave Brun - a man of color from humble social and economic background - has become the archetype of intellectual success, possessor of solid almost autodidactic Academic formation. Having walked his way with small but firm steps up to the zone where elitist intellectualism finds its more explicit definition, he silently nourished a male desire to succeed instilled in him by the harsh existence he has survived. A huge, quiet, logic and understandable ambition -"a vaulting ambition which overleaps itself," would say William Shakespeare - stayed the beacon that has led every single one of his short but constant strides in the long but fruitful crusade for the fulfillment of his manly aspirations.

Holder of undeniable credentials, he transcended to deserve a Professorial chair of Cultural Anthropology in one of the most prestigious establishments of Education on earth, as it occurs Princeton University. Yet, he still felt short on his success, which he acknowledged, unfinished until he would have the opportunity to add to his intellectual accomplishment what he would eventually consider as the most important acquisition of his lifetime: love, true love, the one that crowns all human longings.

Her Assistant secretly hung his heart high on the frontispiece of love, and - as he is going to admit it later - since day one, since his hungry eyes, thirsty of romantic complicity were posed on her adorable silhouette. Celine Lakadus, young female Caucasian, bearer of a proverbial sweetness in the neighborhood of culture, innate sweetness inside-outly expressed and inherited from the Latin background of her Romanian father, heiress of a colossal otherwise extravagant fortune and possessor of what can ensure high life standards in uppercase characters.

At the paroxysm of her womanly dreams, armed with a solid cultural formation, her quest for happiness came to an unexpected height when fate has placed on her way at the right time the unexpected and the inevitable. Her who felt before like abandoned on the endless boulevard of ecstasy - by fault of her own demanding character when it comes to sentimental questions - as a flower condemned to wither at the next dry season suddenly learned to dream.

Gustave Brun, her former mentor, stole her heart. She has learned - aided by her natural perspicacity to weigh details and to discover the truth of all things. During the course of several months of frank camaraderie although limited to intellectual exchange of ideas, she has arrived to the self-persuasion plateau and assessed him as being the man she's been expecting for so long. Why, would ask the stupefied, petrified spectator? "Reasons of the heart that reason ignores", she would argue.

For both, it's the renaissance of life in its entire splendor. A life that appeared for both senseless in its essence where any materialistic accomplishment that it is economic, intellectual or else could barely replace the heart's sentiments or provide the necessary nourishment to the soul's well-being. Their search for romantic outpourings reached its momentum when least expected; and existence suddenly opened up on something sublime, inexpressive and without a definition in any language.

Settled by a turbulent although moderate mutual passion that inspired a certain commitment to live and the enjoyment of existence in its fullness, they gave in with a tremendous frenzy to the ecstasy born from such a benevolent occurrence. Since the first demonstration of shared endeavors between the two, it's been a fast-paced tango delivered on the shores of happiness. The whole thing was evolved in a so self-centered frenetic passion around their mutual feelings that not even thin air could penetrate the tight intimacy established in their midst.

A walk to lunch together in a busy downtown in the midst of a huge melee, a bold action for many, a couple of attractive human beings if not natural phenomena proper to excite curiosity or to engender disdain, to provoke admiration or to generate hatred. A transgression to the status quo that must be reproached or punished according to a certain standard of thinking contributed to the irreversibility of their acquaintance loving. Idiosyncratically, absurd behavior was about to give way through one of its most pitiful manifestations to grandiose life's calling.

And the incident occurred, an incident while aiming at engendering the evanescence of their young, enthusiastic, legitimate aspirations has transcended in an irreversible tour de force. An incident that could tip in the bottomless precipice of the impossible their mutual interest - although undeclared - has contributed instead to strengthen what was coming surely but in a subtle and undecipherable manner. It has indeed helped to the emancipation of their timorous feelings similar to the benevolent early morning dewdrops joining forces with the warm reflections of the sunset to favor the sudden blossoming of multicolored spring flowers.

Thus came to life a moving story between two sublime natures, two grandiose representatives of the human race and two peaceful champions of the social factor. They are bearers of a culture, a way of life, a standard of thoughts and actions they intend to bring to another level of philosophical comprehension. They answer with fashion and class to the call of love and reasons. They want to be two simple although sublime human beings in love with each other; they turn out to be recipients and carriers of sublime feelings, catalysts of salutary reconsiderations of racial and social priorities. Their worlds that everything could contribute to divide at the expense of their loving fervor would eventually be joined around love, engagement and finally the sacred knot of marriage. In the midst of this novella, their quest for happiness gives way to one of the most beautiful expressions of love based on comprehension and reciprocal respect, and also on a perfect mastery of their individual impulsions for the crowning of their ambitious longings for personal ecstasy beyond the boundaries of all alienating social conventions.

Their spiritual maturity elevates love to the height of a philosophical sentiment, a platonic representation of a vehement and burning affection for each other. They demonstrate through their sophisticated interlocution and throughout the development of the novel all the innocence, the disinterestedness, the magnificent purity and the vivaciousness of their mutual devotion.

About the Author

Ernst Delma is a native of Haiti. Born in Jacmel, he has completed his secondary classic studies to his baccalaureate in Lyceum Toussaint Louverture, Port-au-prince. He studied accounting before attending the Faculty of Ethnology of the State University of Haiti in view of obtaining a License in General Anthropology, studies that stay incomplete interrupted by his immigration to the United States. He is actually working towards a Bachelor degree in Computer Science. When asked why this dichotomy letters - science in his intellectual interests, he argues that - unless a solid reputation as a writer is established with time - economic harvest is not always a guarantee for the knights of the pen.

Early in his life, he has expressed his inclination for poetry and prose writing. Besides of having taught French and Haitian literature, Literary and Historic Dissertation, he is himself a fervent passionate of the pen, a lover of Humanities, and a man of letters. He has published his poems of youth in the hebdomad "The screen" of his hometown Jacmel. His first famous one Vain Pursuit - published by Father Bernard, a religious Canadian then Director of School in Jacmel - got good reviews among the youth and was worth him the pseudonym "Mister Poet" at age seventeen.

Moreover, he has written essays, editorials, and lately - having regained his past fervor for poetry the delights of his tender ages - he has been publishing his verses through the National Library of Poetry and on the Internet through poetry.com. With this novel, Mr. Delma pretends to inaugurate the eventual publication of all his works to reach a literary recognition, which is, according to his own words, long overdue. He confides that he could have been by now a renowned author, but the difficulties that have come with his displacement from his homeland, Haiti, have caused a gaping crackle in his inspiration process.

He has several manuscripts that he intends to develop to their full length, and many poems of which he wishes to share the quintessence with his readers in a near future. And this will be only the beginning if the harvest responds positively to the difficulties of the sowing, and faithfully keeps the promises of the flowers.