The Daemonic Paradox

By Scott W. Weaver

A grisly murder-suicide occurs, involving two of the most brilliant young mathematicians of our age. This sensational material attracts the attention of a journalistic writer, eager to cash in with a pulpy book. Before he's able to do so, he's hijacked by a muse. Far from the innocent maiden of Romantic lore, she turns out to be a cynical demoness-and the one responsible for the gruesome deaths.She prevents the writer from continuing his book, and instead, forces him to play the scribe as she dictates to him her own version of the events. Misanthropically narrating from her own soul's-eye perspective, she gives a description of her nature, her history, her troubled crossing into our world, her fatal love affair with Pythagoras, and the events leading up to the bloody scene-including her repeated, humiliating violations at the hands of ambitious humans.Written in an essayistic fashion, this book is animated by the quirks of its millennia-old, mythological narratrix: for example, a sometimes wild vocabulary, passing references to obscure historical strains of thought, and a blatant disregard for the standard conventions of scene-painting and characterization. It gives a quasi-allegorical account of the conflict between rival spiritual impulses, its collateral damage on the fabric of intellectual nature, and the revenge that nature can in turn exact.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466417560
• ISBN13: 9781466417564
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"