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Feel the Magic!: What Do You Do on a Rainy Day in Ireland?
Feel the Magic!: What Do You Do on a Rainy Day in Ireland?
Feel the Magic!: What Do You Do on a Rainy Day in Ireland?
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Feel the Magic!: What Do You Do on a Rainy Day in Ireland?

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There are two kinds of people who wont want to miss reading Feel the Magic!, a rollicking tale by Bill Soisson, a wise-cracking sixty-year-old man who sets out to conquer the Emerald Isle on a bicycle. As Bill takes to the road for a month-long assault, there is no doubt in his mind that he can indeed conquer the place.

But many things can happen in a month, and after dozens of encounters with the irresistible Gaels who call themselves Irish, Soisson comes to realize that instead of conquering, he has been clearly bested. All along his vagabond way, the Irish have out-wisecracked, outsmarted, outlaughed, and outloved him. He has been enslaved by the affections of a host of delightful characters who regularly take smart-aleck strangers and bring them to heel with large doses of blarney, twice-told tales, and patented put-downs. Morever, he has been deeply moved by the history of that poetic people.

Most remarkable, though, is that the author, put to a test by wit or kindness at every turn for a solid month, has loved every moment of it equally, the humbling as well as the exalting. And, by the time his story has been told, you sense that he will never again be quite the same brash man who landed in Dublin. He has been touched by many people, in ways ranging from riotously funny to deeply emotional. Each experience has been different, but each has been very human and very . . . well, Irish.

In the end, when he leaves that enchanted land, he is overcome with the mysterious feeling that the butcher in Dublin was right on the mark when he said, Who do you think sent you here, and do you think it was just for a piece of meat?

Filled with colorful historical background, peopled by warm characters and impish fairies, Feel the Magic! is a story that anyone who hasnt yet been to Ireland wont want to miss.

But who are the others? Didnt I say there are two kinds of people who wont want to miss reading this book?

Yes, I did. The others, of course, are those who have been to Ireland!
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateSep 27, 2016
ISBN9781524525125
Feel the Magic!: What Do You Do on a Rainy Day in Ireland?
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William Soisson

Bill Soisson has always loved words. In first grade, his teacher noticed that he had an unusually large working vocabulary. She gave him increasingly difficult tests in order to explore his talent. It wasn't until he was examined at the eighth-grade level that little Soisson missed a single vocabulary answer. The word was "Sumperfla'd". No correct synonym was provided among the possible answers. Did this spiteful and envious act of a primary school teacher cause our young hero to cry foul? Not at all. It merely caused him to embark on a lifelong search for the meaning of the word "sumperflad," and it was during his search that Soisson, after intensely studying Ambrose Bierce's "Devil's Dictionary," came up with the idea of “The Curmudgeon's Dictionary" as a way of raising the money he needs to continue his quest. It also allows him to get a perverted sort of revenge on that now-Attzheimerish teacher by playing his own dirty tricks with words. As he matured, a philosophy degree at the University of Notre Dame and a law degree at Dickinson provided young Soisson first with insight and then chicanery regarding the use of words. The years he spent in Europe and Africa, using other languages, served to teach him to make a mess out of his own tongue. The discipline of writing for publication in such fields as international law and the Islamic and Bantu cultures taught him the use of words as “flatulence.” And along the way, he became an accomplished speaker before audiences of all sizes. When an interviewer asked whether he was comfortable speaking to large groups, Soisson responded, "Yes. It's the listeners who are uncomfortable." As for the future of his work, the scholarly Soisson says, "My aim is ultimately to destroy everyone's pomposities, deceptions, and absurdities until I am the only person left with pomposities, deceptions, and absurdities."

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