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Published: March 6, 2020, 7:19 p.m.

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Wide Illumination Chapter 8 read by the author Tom Rubens

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This work is a Contemporary Literature about a young student finding his first love affair

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 Set in the mid-1960s, this second novel in the \'Illumination\' trilogy shows its

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central character, Richard Lane, studying at university, and fostering intellectual

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friendships with some of his fellow male students. Also, during his first long summer

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vacation, he visits Germany and meets a young German woman, Helga, with whom he

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comes to share a deep and intimate understanding, as well as sexual pleasure. This sharing

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is presented as especially interesting because, happening only two decades after the end of

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World War Two, it shows the ability of young people, with their eager openness to

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experience, to bridge different national and cultural backgrounds. Finally, the text moves

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beyond Richard\'s university days to the world of work, and his first encounters in yet

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another Continental country, Portugal, where a good deal of the final book in the trilogy will be set in.

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About the Author Tom Rubens

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While a great deal of my energy has gone into teaching English Language and

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Literature in further and higher education, I have remained continually interested in those

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areas of private life which, for myself and of course for every other working person, lie

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outside the pursuit of a professional career when that itself is not one of authorship. The

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private terrain is, I have found, the most complex, so the most difficult to illuminate: and is

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therefore the prime subject for personal writing, in whatever form that writing takes. For

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me, the forms have been literature (fiction, poetry) and philosophy. The trilogy of novel I

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have produced, of which Wide Illumination is the second text, indicate what I see as the

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close linkage between literature and philosophy\\u2014with each focus, as it seeks to plumb the

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depths, being supported by the other. This linkage becomes increasingly evident as Wide

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Illumination proceeds on its way.

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https://www.amazon.com/Wide-Illumination-university-Students-encounters/dp/1912951339

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Available in Kindle and Softback

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