Phantom

By Mary B. Sinclair

Blinded by the light in America? Has America let you down by failing to live up to its orginal promise? Maybe Phantom knows something that you dont.

Fall down the rabbit hole with Phantom and grab a ringside dark room seat as he turns America upside down.

As he challenges glib (but dishonest) procrastinating politicians who promise the moon, but dont deliver (overseeing oversight is all they do from day to night) and exploitive, verbally abusive motor mouth radio talk show hosts, While many honest politicians are shafted (and muzzled) for speaking out in more truthful (but politically incorrect) ways. Phantom also takes on ambulance chasing within America, or the practice of exploiting people with problems even further to make more money.

My book explores issues revolving around criminal justice in America as well. Including how the Media contributes to the creation of crime (and criminals)by publishing names and ridiculing people in the newspaper, thus ruining reputations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Dec 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462069057

Mary B. Sinclair

I was born in Ossipee, New Hampshire on September 15, 1942, but I have lived all my life in Boston, Massachusetts. I graduated from Roxbury Community College with an Associates Degree in Word Processing. I also received a B.A. in English from UMass, Boston in 2001. Currently I am attending UMass, Boston as a graduate student. I have an Author Central Page on Amazon. My URL is amazon.com/author/marysinclair

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iUniverse rev. date: 12/22/2011

Contents

Phantom

Q&A about my book, Phantom

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Phantom

From listening to it so many times on the radio, Jill had slowly fallen in love with the overpowering intensity and chutzpah of the song, Phantom of the Opera.

And, when she brainstormed for a while, she had finally figured out exactly why she loved it. She loved it for its glorification of the dark side.

Even though—in most people’s minds—the dark side was synonymous with amoral or immoral, in Phantom of the Opera it was taken out of that context and reconfigured.

The dark side was given a mind, a style and a passion of its own.

Although bound by its own rules, it was braver, more daring, more resonating, more stimulating and more straightforward in every way than the light.

And far more resourceful, encouraging and flexible. For those poor souls who had lost hope. (And, sooner or later, that included everyone).

Like phantom pain—that persisted despite amputation—the Phantom (to Jill) breathed a kind of whispering hope that let you know you were still alive.

(Even though everything else in your life may have been mercilessly amputated or stripped away).

And that exact presentation of this song (its larger than life, bold legitimization of the dark side) was what was so awesome and incredible to Jill.

That thrilled Jill to the marrow of her bones. Rocked her world.

In Phantom of the Opera, the essential theme (the music and the night) was packaged in a deliciously robust, intriguing, sweeping grandeur.

An aura of glamour, power and mystification. A majesty of mind and soul that seduced, intoxicated and captivated the listener. And for all the right reasons.

It was so clear to Jill that, like a subconscious mind too long pent up because forbidden any chance to express itself, the Phantom (through this song) had finally burst its boundaries.

Had at long last thrown off its chains and was ravenously hungry to tell its side of the story. A story that, far from being monitored and ladled out in tiny tempest in a teapot teaspoons (like Society’s song) had its own inimitable grandeur.

Its own uniquely potent vision.

Like a Beauty and the Beast presentation, it put a whole new spin on how the darkness was perceived. Changing it into something heroic and splendid.

Took it out of its usual throw away context of ignoble, inspired by the devil (with no connection whatsoever to the light) and rechristened it with a thrilling urgency and burst of transcendent energy.

Imbued the darkness with endless possibilities.

And the reason the song was able to do this for its listeners (and make it stick or pull it off) was this.

Darkness had become—for all too many people nowadays—a force field or counter force far more relevant and credible than a light which (although presenting as the voice of truth or reason) sooner or later showed its ugly side.

Sooner or later dissolved into nothing. Boiled down to merely keeping on keeping on.

Turned into the mechanics and boredom of simply doing what you were told for its own sake.

Darkness, on the other hand, kept alive the hope of endless possibilities. And Jill understood the reason for people’s