Detached Lives

Clayton Troblan finds the peace of his solitude disturbed by an insistent stranger. The introverted accountant wonders if his uninvited guest is slightly confused, but after the intruder announces he is from another world, Clay realizes the combative individual might be more than just a harmless distraction. Hoping to pacify the stranger who has described himself as a conveyor, Clay follows his guest and is suddenly transported to Drenna, a world with a unique energy field and no usable metals. The conveyor insists Clay become a judge and settle a growing dispute between two tribal factions. The prospect of engaging aggressive and confrontational council members leaves the accountant desperate to find a way home. Unable to recreate the passage back to Earth, Clay is forced to intervene in the politics of Drenna and place the security of his personal detachment in jeopardy.

A young man shaped by two parents that should have not had children. Neither capable of parenting but Larry was here and so were his sisters. Thank goodness there are some good folks in the world.

What are the Commandments to live a life of Detachment? What are the 10 Commandments which can liberate us from all attachments? These 10 Commandments will not only show us how to live a life of Detached Attachment but will also lead us to a life of eternal happiness, Divine love and everlasting peace. It is common for us human beings to get attached to our possessions, to relationships, to the people we love. This is is because of ignorance. This is because we do not resolve to live a life which gives us freedom, which gives us peace, which gives us happiness. If only we learn to live our life following the 10 Commandments of Detached Attachment, we will be attached no more. We will be so detached that while it would seem that we are deeply attached on the outside, deep within, we will be free, we will be detached. Follow these 10 Commandments and live a life of bliss and peace.

A critical look at the aesthetic encounter with semi-detachment through literature and art When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state of being: what it means to be within and without our social and physical milieu, at once interacting and drifting away, and how it affects our ideas about aesthetics. The allure of many modern aesthetic experiences, this book argues, is that artworks trigger and provide ways to make sense of this oscillating, in-between place. John Plotz focuses on Victorian and early modernist writers and artists who understood their work as tapping into, amplifying, or giving shape to a suspended duality of experience. The book begins with the decline of the romantic tale, the rise of realism, and John Stuart Mill’s ideas about social interaction and subjective perception. Plotz examines Pre-Raphaelite paintings that take semi-detached states of attention as their subject and novels that treat provincial subjects as simultaneously peripheral and central. He discusses how realist writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James show how consciousness can be in more than one place at a time; how the work of William Morris demonstrates the shifting forms of semi-detachment in print and visual media; and how Willa Cather created a form of modernism that connected aesthetic dreaming and reality. Plotz concludes with a look at early cinema and the works of Buster Keaton, who found remarkable ways to portray semi-detachment on screen. In a time of cyberdependency and virtual worlds, when it seems that attention to everyday reality is stretching thin, Semi-Detached takes a historical and critical look at the halfway-thereness that audiences have long comprehended and embraced in their aesthetic encounters.

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The desire to have a home of one’s own is still the leading motivation for those who wish to construct or purchase buildings. Semi-Detached and Terraced Houses and ribbon developments constitute an affordable alternative to the single-family house, especially for young families. In times of tight budgets and rising investment costs, they represent a sensible alternative to the freestanding single-family house, particularly in terms of their use of open space. That they can also be appealing, high-quality houses is shown by the selected international examples in this new volume in the series In Detail. The projects presented are organized by building material and clearly documented with an area map, ground plans, and interrelated sections. The documentation of examples is supplemented by technical articles offering concrete support and assistance for the planner and building sponsor. In addition to analyzing the typology of the high-density, single-family house, the volume introduces different planning and financing models as well as energy-saving building methods and construction with prefabricated parts.