We All Have A Monster

Steve Forman Strafes The South Florida Scene With Boca Knights, An Outrageously Funny Mystery Novel With A Raft Of Offbeat Characters And Prose That Moves Trippingly Off The Pen. His Main Man, Eddie Perlmutter, Ex-boston Cop Attempting Semi-retirement In Boca Raton Like A Fish Trying To Retire Out Of The Water, Is A Character For The Ages. Carl Hiaasen, Watch Your Back.

I'm Pretty Much A 9-to-5 Kind Of Guy. I Usually Get To Work About 8 In The Morning, And I Work Until 4 Or 5, And Sometimes I Work On Saturday And Sunday Mornings. Pretty Much I Keep The Same Hours As An Accountant Or Clerk Or Whatever.

The Mandalas Were Meant To Be Objects Of Contemplation, Aids To Meditation, Their Proportions Magically Balanced To Purify And Calm The Mind. To Stare At A Mandala Was To Experience, If Only Briefly, The Nothingness That Is At The Heart Of Enlightenment.

You Think Of Yourself As An "individual Person", With A Unique And Separate Mind. You Think You Are Born And You Think You Die. All Your Life You Feel Separate And Alone. Sometimes Desperately So. You Fear Death Because You Fear The Loss Of Individuality. All This Is An Illusion. You, He, She, Those Things Around You Living Or Not, The Stars And Galaxies, The Empty Space In Between- These Are Not Distinct, Separate Objects. All Is Fundamentally Entangled.

I Would Have To Say The Novel 'war And Peace' Influenced Me More Than Any Other Book. This Greatest Of Novels Demonstrated To Me The Enormous Power Of Literature And Fired Me Up With A Desire To Become A Writer, To Participate In What I Considered Then To Be The Greatest Of All Endeavors.