![]() Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agency with his partner, Holly Gibney-the woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfield’s head that put him on the brain injury ward. Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero of Mr. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. ![]() In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers-In End of Watch, the diabolical “Mercedes Killer” drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don’t figure out a way to stop him, they’ll be victims themselves. ![]() The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Next, put the impression to the control test: “does it involve up to me, or not up to me?” You will recall that Epictetus says that only “things of our own making” are truly up to us, judgements and opinions, for instance.Īnd lastly, if it falls into the latter category, “not up to me,” dismiss it as inconsequential-which is to say, it is inconsequential to my moral well being. That’s the first step, the receiving of an external impression or thought, and taking a moment to realize it as such. Strip it bear and put it in a simple context: I am aware that my mind has received from my senses a certain impression ( phantasia in the Greek). ![]() Instead, hold it at arms length, challenge it. That is, as advised in the previous posts, do not trust an impression out of hand (despite our habit of doing so). ![]() In summary, he says, develop the habit of examining all external impressions. In the quoted paragraph Epictetus lays out a simple yet powerful guide. We need only turn to Epictetus to find the teaching (quoted above). Now that we’ve got a working knowledge of the Dichotomy of Controllet’s develop a practice around this important Stoic concept. ![]() First and foremost: does it involve the things up to us, or the things not up to us? And if it involves one fo the things not up to us, have the following response to hand: ‘Not my business.’” “ Right now then make it your habit to tell every jarring thought or impression: ‘You are just an appearance and in no way the real thing.’ Next examine it and test it by these rules that you have. ![]() ![]() By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.” ( Goodreads) ![]() ![]() When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. Description: “ Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. ![]() ![]() ![]() Feeling she has nothing left to lose, a vengeance-bent Eve ignores Cal’s warnings to leave investigating to the professionals and begins asking questions of dangerous people with plenty to hide. Junie’s single mom, Eve, a feisty, funny, sometimes foulmouthed diner waitress, is shattered by the news, but she swiftly becomes enraged by what she sees as a less than vigorous probe by the local police, including her idolized older brother, Cal, who she suspects may be writing off the murders as collateral damage from the meth ring run by their own abusive, long-estranged pit bull of a mother. The stark prologue of this harrowing thriller from Engel ( The Roanoke Girls) recounts the final moments of 12-year-old best friends Izzy Logan and Junie Taggert, slaughtered on an abandoned playground in their impoverished hometown in the Missouri Ozarks. ![]() |