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    A Plague of Darkness: Or the Unseen and the Unseeable
    A Plague of Darkness: Or the Unseen and the Unseeable
    A Plague of Darkness: Or the Unseen and the Unseeable
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    A Plague of Darkness: Or the Unseen and the Unseeable

    By Paul JJ Payack

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    A Plague of Darkness sheds light upon the sense of quiet desperation currently devastating the children of our society: rich or poor; black, white, yellow and red. This plague, which we watch morph and transform itself into its differing forms every evening on our nightly news is an equal opportunity destroyer. During a cross-country plane trip, Payack penned A Plague of Darkness. To better illustrate (and encapsulate) the emotional toll this unseeable plague has wreaked upon the emotional lives of our children across the land, he further illustrated this essay with a series of some thirty 'collages' that will help you see the devastation through the minds (and eyes) of the children, which remain hopeful, above all.

    "Paul Payack's ability to blend the mediums of writing and pictorial art into a collage of prophetic insight is incredibly unique and provocative. A Plague of Darkness is a rich feast of mental and spiritual expression that will move your thinking to a higher plain."
    -Pastor Ron Pinkston, author, lecturer, and radio personality featured on A Day of New Beginnings.

    "The brief, almost bald, summation of crucial experience that attains its power through its stark reductiveness."
    -Sylvia L. Berkman, author of Blackberry Wilderness
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 6, 2003
    ISBN9781469778846
    A Plague of Darkness: Or the Unseen and the Unseeable
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    Paul JJ Payack

    Paul J.J. Payack is currently president and C.E.O. of yourDictionary.com, Danville, California, the world’s most comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the world wide web. Payack is a noted lecturer on high tech Marketing and Communications, and a published author, his work appearing in dozens of collections, journals and reviews.

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