Falling Bedrooms: Our Lives in the Quantum Field

By Dr. Donna Clovis

FALLING BEDROOMS: OUR LIVES IN THE QUANTUM FIELD
This fifth installment of a series centered on Princeton examines themes of race, media manipulation, and time traveling via the subconscious.
Clovis’ (Time Is the Length to Forever, 2018, etc.) latest volume, like the preceding novels, comprises short chapters and stories. Many of these deal with racism. The author, for example, tells of slaves in the United States traveling through Princeton on their way to freedom in the North. But slavery unfortunately existed at that time in the city. And though slavery and segregation have been abolished, the author astutely notes instances of racism and discrimination still happening today. She asserts that CBS’ “all white staff” that will cover the 2020 presidential election shows the lack of diversity among journalists. Other chapters sharply criticize media-related incidents, including the murder of journalists chasing civil or political stories and people getting their news from Facebook, which sells users’ personal data. But the author promotes positivity as well, from the celebrated release of the Gregory Hines postage stamp to the upcoming 50-year commemoration of Sesame Street. Throughout her series, Clovis has discussed assessing the past, present, and future via “the quantum field of consciousness,” which combines theories from Jung and Einstein. In this book, she skillfully traverses the “labyrinth of the subconscious” in successive chapters. It’s a surreal but engaging section: The White Rabbit of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland assigns Clovis the task of retrieving the red sap of the Dragon’s Blood Tree. Even with this break in reality, the author’s prose evokes a visually arresting scene: “The garden grows and expands, breaking boundaries, to reveal the steep terrain of a Vertigo dizzying mountain.” Clovis’ dreamlike journey entails traveling to the past and future, but also deftly reflects her personal feelings and experiences. One of the most telling scenes is when the author enters a restaurant of white linens and walls, filled with white patrons who stop eating to stare at the sole dark-skinned diner.
A worthy selection of ardent musings, timely issues, and perceptive prose. Kirkus Reviews

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Oct 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9781982232993

Dr. Donna Clovis

Dr. Donna Clovis is an adjunct professor at Rider University with a doctorate from Columbia University.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 08/15/2019

CONTENTS

1 Every Time

2 See My Child, Time Turns Into Space

3 Parallel Stories in the Quantum Field

4 The 40.5 Parallel

5 A Tale of Two Cities

6 Princeton Passports

7 Princeton as a Geometry Lesson

8 Reading Princeton as a Novel of Time and Space

9 The Quantum Universe of the Labyrinth

10 The Pilgrimage as a Quantum Adventure

THE JOURNEY BEGINS

11 The Other Side of Glass

12 Warhol’s Fiesta Pig in the Year of the Pig

13 The Labyrinth of Alleys

14 Always Becoming

15 The Descent

16 The Cul de Sac of Time

17 You Are Invited

18 The Battle of the Guardians and Desert Rose

19 The Red Sap of the Dragon’s Blood Tree

20 Villagers

21 Princeton Stadium

22 The Blanket of Fireflies

23 Phoenix and Rainbows

24 A Classroom of Possibilities

25 Time Brings Me to Carnethia

26 Shadows and Dolls

27 Flying on the Back of Hummingbird Wings

28 Sleep Allows Us to Dream

DAYDREAMS OF HATE

29 She Has Forgotten Suffering

30 A Series of a Recurring Date: November 9th

31 The Green Book

32 Voices Lost

33 Covering the Tick-Tock of African American Life

34 We Wish to Plead Our Cause

35 Then They Came for the Journalists

36 Paper Infrastructures

37 Quoting Orwell From Princeton’s Place

38 When Fake News Goes Viral, We Become Diseased

39 Freedom, Threats, and Lawsuits

40 Past Presidents Preached

41 Race Is Not a Scientific Reality

42 The Cold Hard Facts

43 Shutdown

44 One Cherokee, One Feather

45 Knowing Keeps Us Free

OF DAYS AND TIMES AND SEASONS

46 Grisham’s Confessions

47 Hop-Shuffle-STAMP: Gregory Hines

48 The Language of Symbols

49 Of Exotic Trophies

50 Digging for Gems in Princeton

51 Where Every Day Is a Sunny Day

52 Celebrate #Robeson100

53 Dancing a Memory

54 Date Night

55 A Princeton Property Boasts a Grand Entrance

56 Falling Bedrooms

57 A Librarian Who Draws Literary Maps With Love

58 Back to the Beginning

59 Living Princeton History

60 When Seeing Is Not Believing

61 Of Warnings and Cries for Help

62 The Silence of Omission

63 Voice as Quantum

64 Encore for Emily

65 FREQUENCY

Appendix A Synchronicity: Quantum Consciousness in the Extreme

Appendix B Real Objects, Places, and Phenomena

Appendix C Creative Writing as a Gesture in Synchronicity

Dedicated

to Emily Mann,

Artistic Director of McCarter Theater and

Award-Winning Playwright Celebrated as Fierce Champion of Works

by Women and People of Color

Thank you to my husband, James, sons, Matthian and Justin, and daughter, Michaela,

my parents, and my in-laws: the past, present, and future of my lifetime.

And thank you to my editor: Gabriella Oldham

You, he said, are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

CHAPTER 1

EVERY TIME

E very time I determine that I finally finished my novel writing about Princeton, I find myself again connected and back in place as if I am part of a never-ending fairytale. I willfully submit as the scribe of this Princeton Place like a puzzle piece fixture of Princeton past, present, and future.

Today, I am asked by Rider University to teach an English course to incoming freshmen at Westminster Choir College in Princeton. It’s the place high on the hill on Walnut that looks like a Jefferson Memorial of sorts. I have passed by the structure on many occasions listening to echoes of choral and classical music vibrating the past in the winds of time.

Time brings me to a classroom here with a large black grand piano in the front near the board.

CHAPTER 2

SEE MY CHILD, TIME TURNS INTO SPACE

I have a photo that shows synchronicity between us when I was younger. I have a picture to prove it, Natasha said.

I nodded, but was a little confused as I stood before my classroom at Westminster Choir College, in Princeton.

Natasha is a student in my class at Westminster Choir College. And she read Quantum Leaps in Princeton’s Place to learn about the concept of synchronicity. But I could not imagine how we were connected until she showed