Inside John Barth
()
About this ebook
Related to Inside John Barth
Related ebooks
Inside John Barth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnder The Gun; ‘Experimental Literature Of An Urgent Nature’ Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUncharted Frontier EZine Issue 3: Halloween 2012 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLee Hacklyn 1970s Private Investigator in Noah's Architecture: Lee Hacklyn, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Big Fix Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dark Side of Paradise Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAshes and Bones: An Emma Fielding Mystery Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Zombies v. Ninjas: Origin: Zombies v. Ninjas, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings13 Reasons for Murder Meathead: 13 Reasons for Murder, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Combat Zone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sigma Factor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cloned Identity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRecall: The Sigma Code Chronicles, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDon’t Worry About the Yets: The Agains Will Get You Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKiss the Reaper Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Boneless Kiss Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmazing Sexual Practices of Other Worlds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFifty Flying Ducks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConfessions of a Gay Curmudgeon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMalicious Intent Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTaiso Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVirgin Gay Werewolf First Time Sex Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Scapegoat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExploding Buddha Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSmoking Is Cool Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEscape from B Movie Hell Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlood Soaked & Gone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Brummagem Screwdriver Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwice Bitten: Broad Gate Pack, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Earth's Survivors Life Stories: Bear Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Science Fiction For You
Wool: Book One of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silo Series Collection: Wool, Shift, Dust, and Silo Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is How You Lose the Time War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Psalm for the Wild-Built Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Who Have Never Known Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annihilation: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sarah J. Maas: Series Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oona Out of Order: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England: Secret Projects, #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rendezvous with Rama Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Am Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blindsight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perelandra: (Space Trilogy, Book Two) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shift: Book Two of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unsheltered: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Troop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Deep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dust: Book Three of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Firestarter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Camp Zero: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Inside John Barth
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Inside John Barth - William Stuart
Inside John Barth
William Stuart
OZYMANDIAS PRESS
Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review or connect with the author.
All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.
Copyright © 2016 by William Stuart
Interior design by Pronoun
Distribution by Pronoun
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I
II
III
IV
I
TAKE A FELLOW, REASONABLY young, personable enough, health perfect. Suppose he has all the money he can reasonably, or even unreasonably, use. He is successful in a number of different fields of work in which he is interested. Certainly he has security. Women? Well, maybe not any woman in the world he might want. But still, a very nice, choice selection of a number of the very finest physical specimens. The finest—and no acute case of puritanism to inhibit his enjoyment.
Take all that. Then add to it the positive assurance of continuing youth and vigor, with a solid life expectancy of from 175 to 200 more years. Impossible? Well—just suppose it were all true of someone. A man like that, a man with all those things going for him, you’d figure he would be the happiest man in the world.
Wouldn’t you?
Sure. A man with all that would have to be the happiest—unless he was crazy. Right? But me, Johnny Barth, I had it.
I had all of it, just like that. I sure wasn’t the happiest man in the world though. And I know I wasn’t crazy either. The thing about me was, I wasn’t a man. Not exactly.
I was a colony.
Really. A colony. A settlement. A new but flourishing culture, you might say. Oh, I had the look of a man, and the mind and the nerves and the feel of a man too. All the normal parts and equipment. But all of it existed—and was beautifully kept up, I’ll say that—primarily as a locale, not a man.
I was, as I said before, a colony.
Sometimes I used to wonder how New England really felt about the Pilgrims. If you think that sounds silly—perhaps one of these days you won’t.
THE beginning was some ten years back, on a hunting trip the autumn after I got out of college. That was just before I started working,