It
is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its
mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated
phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which
lie outside its common experience. Men of broader intellect know that
there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all
things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual
physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them;
but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the
flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious
empiricism.
Carter Kaplan is the author of The Invisible Tower Trilogy: Echoes, We Reign Secure, and The Sky-Shaped Sarcophagus. His first novel is Tally-Ho, Cornelius!Diogenes is an Aristophanic comedy. Editor of Emanations; IA edition of The Scarlet Letter with Afterword, "A" is for Antinomian: Theology and Politics in The Scarlet Letter; the anthology Fantasy Worlds. Co-translator and editor of Creation of the World by Torquato Tasso. Book on Wittgenstein and literary theory: Critical Synoptics. Articles on “Karel Čapek,” “Menippean Satire” and “Dystopian Literature” in The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Articles on "Herman Melville" and "Michael Butterworth" in A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (which has an article about him). A chapter on William Blake and Michael Moorcock appears in New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction. Teaching includes Literature, Philosophy, and post-graduate Medical Research Writing in universities ranging across Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York City, and Scotland.
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