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Enigmas: Gold, Space-Time, Sierra Madre Magic

Floyd Merrell

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

2018

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Four couples from the southwest search for Spanish treasure in northern Mexico. They meet strangers from another world dwelling within four dimensions, Tarahumara people with a magical philosophy of life, local bandits, narcos, sus-picious police and military personnel. Yet, they become enchanted by the vast Sierra Madre, find treasures exceeding their wildest dreams, begin squabbling over the take, until the alien visitors sequester most of it. Back home, they make amends, but soon realize their bizarre adventure will haunt them to the end.

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Looking Glass Killer

Floyd Merrell

Bookwhip Company

2020

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A psychopathic killer is on the loose. Detectives Lucia and Mike find themselves in a bind. They must decipher the criminal's outpouring of riddles, puzzles, paradoxes, and words fused with words. It reminds them of a Lewis Carroll novel. In fact, Alice's looking glass often comes to mind. It is as if the psychopath existed in an illogical, irrational and inconsistent world of his own making. This killer is obviously brilliant. He knows forensics and the media inside out. Who is he? How can Lucia and Mike come to terms with his idiosyncrasies and bring him to justice?

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Entangling Forms

Floyd Merrell

De Gruyter Mouton

2010

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The volume draws from Charles S. Peirce's pragmatic philosophy, as well as from diverse areas in contemporary arts and sciences, and certain facets of Buddhist philosophy – especially regarding notions of interconnectedness, self-organization, and co-participation of the knowing subject with her inner world, her socio-cultural world, and her physical environment. Contradictory, complementary, and coalescence are also fundamental watchwords, in addition to entanglement. 'Contradictory', since conflicts, clashes and inconsistencies there will always be, in spite attempts to resolve them. 'Complementarity', since poles of opposition can at least provisionally be resolved by mediation and moderation, however vaguely and ambiguously, such that consonance might emerge from dissonance, balance from imbalance, and accord from discord. And 'coalescence', since the union of disparities is an ongoing, and always incomplete, process; it is never fixed product. These concepts, along with the key word, entanglement, place Peirce in a new light, giving rise to new questions and possible responses from readers who are searching for alternate means of understanding in our increasingly complex, rapidly globalizing world.

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