Joseph Guest:
CLASS OF 1974
East High SchoolClass of 1974
Garden city, MI
Joseph's Story
Joseph is from Garden City, Michigan. He is Divorced. His schools include East High School. He works(ed) at Xerox Corporation, Thomson Reuters, Affiliated Computer Services.
Joseph's interests include Single Malts, Cigars.
One of Joseph's favorite quotes is:"I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But now I know. Oh, Romeo certainly thinks he loves his Juliet. Driven by hormones, he unquestionably lusts for her. But if he loves her, it is a shallow love. Soon after meeting her for the first time, he realizes he forgot to ask her for her name. In the end, he finds no comfort in living out the remainder of his life within the paradigm of his love, at least keeping alive the memory of what they had briefly shared. Nor does he seek the reason for her lifelike appearance in death. Does he hold her in his arms one last time and feel the warmth of her blood still coursing through her veins? Does he pinch her to see if she might awaken? Does he hold a mirror to her nose to see if her breath fogs it? No. His alleged love is so superficial and so selfish that he seeks to escape the pain of loss by taking his own life. ThatâÂÂs not love, but infatuation. Had they wedâÂÂJuliet bearing many children, bonding, growing together, the masks of the star-struck teens they once were long ago cast away, basking in the love born of a lifetime togetherâÂÂand she died of natural causes, would Romeo have been so moved to take his own life, or would he have grieved properly for her loss and not just his own? âÂÂJ. Conrad Guest (from the novel, The Cobb Legacy)
Men have called me mad. âÂÂBut the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligenceâÂÂwhether much that is gloriousâÂÂ...Expand for more
whether all that is profoundâÂÂdoes not spring from disease of thoughtâÂÂfrom moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. âÂÂEdgar Allan Poe
HeâÂÂs like a lamppost to a drunk: Sometimes he provides support, other times he lights the way.".
More about Joseph:"Novelist, freelance editor and writer, cofounder of The Smoking Poet.
My first novel, JanuaryâÂÂs Paradigm, was published by Minerva Press, London, England. I've since completed two more novels in the January series, One Hot January, now available through Second Wind and Amazon in both book and Kindle formats, and from Barnes and Noble in both book and Nook formats, and January's Thaw, forthcoming later in 2011.
Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings is available through my publisher, Second Wind, and from Amazon. Backstop was adopted by the Illinois Institute of Technology as required reading for their spring 2011 course, Baseball: America's Literary Pastime. It was also nominated for a Michigan Notable Book for 2010.
I finished Chaotic Theory, a novella that explores the therory of how the flap of butterfly wings in Brazil might cause a tornado in Texas, which is now available on Amazon.
The Cobb Legacy is now available through Pulse Publishing, and I've completed A Retrospect in Death and 500 Miles to Go.
My short fiction and essays appear in various online and print publications, including CezanneâÂÂs Carrot, Saucy Vox, River Walk Journal, 63 Channels, The Writers Post Journal, Redbridge Review, and Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine. A short essay of mine on the writing life appears in the 2008 edition of Bylines CalendarâÂÂa 2006 finalist for the Walter Williams Award, given by the Missouri Writersâ Guild.".
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