Days of Fancy
By Hugo La Rosa
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Fiction is intrinsically attached to life as a spider’s web is attached to the top corner of a threshold of a house; that is probably a superficial connectivity, a light holding, but also real and true.
This work focuses on the life and drama of William Grander, the protagonist, and his family: the way they saw life, sin and virtue, and the stand they take to protect their views .
Hugo La Rosa
Born in Peru, Hugo La Rosa has lived in New York, USA for more than 35 years. He studied Writing and Journalism in Excelsior College, and the Catholic University of Peru. He lives now in Salt Lake City, Utah, dedicated to writing and watercolor painting.
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Days of Fancy - Hugo La Rosa
Days of Fancy
By Hugo La Rosa
Copyright 2012
Smashwords Edition
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Prologue
Fiction is intrinsically attached to life as a spider’s web is attached to the top corner of a threshold of a house; that is probably a superficial connectivity, a light holding, but also real and true.
The protagonist in this novella, William Grander --, whose character is a composite of fiction and real life— lives in his own fictionalized world of appearances. He is constantly assailed by a multitude of questions and stimuli, especially from his own egotistical thoughts.
On this regards, the book raises a lot of questions with a subjective validity. Nevertheless, those questions –it seems to me-- are universal. But most importantly, I have written this story with the high pretense of shifting your comfort zone a little, to incite you to take a stand on the theme and matters of this work: compassion, or judgment, or both?
Are we to feel empathy towards sinful people, their thoughts and actions, which are often the result of heavy conditioning from the world at large? Are they to be judged by what they do in their lives, without paying attention to their internal life, their deluded thinking, full of suffering sometimes? Life is a mosaic, full of colors and hues, not a black and white movie. You’ll see it, if you keep reading.
The Author
Days of Fancy
By Hugo La Rosa
Susan
Susan had woken up to a rare, sunny, early April morning, and the first thing she gazed with still sleepy eyes was the play of light upon a glass of water on her nigh table. The empty attention with which she protected herself from the past, the simple quiet which had already turned up into facile boredom enervated her feelings. It exposed her thoughts to languor, and a certain respectability of things, acquired only by those who have acknowledged the presence of recent death in a close family member. On her night table rested also her Diary, open to its last entry, and a beautiful copper lamp: left on all night, its incandescent flowery top displaying weak silhouettes upon the wall. Her life had changed drastically; suddenly, Susan felt available; at Auntie Grace’s house, she could now be surrounded by greenery and natural noises, colorful birds, the workers unobtrusive, far away voices in the nearby orchards, the clanking of pans and pots in the kitchen whose only big window gave to sunny open spaces. The tall, half open window, on the second floor, where Susan had been accommodated, overlooked the backyard garden,