We recommend reading "A Readable Reader" before purchasing this volume. "A Readable Reader" includes several of the more readable (ie: less philosophical) selections from "First Loves". If you love the Pure Love stories in "A Readable Reader" and think you might be up for some more philosophical asides, "First Loves" will be here waiting for you.Stories of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and buying Pure Love - the eternal good upon within which all true human loves are grounded ...

The eternal, superhuman lovebirds Hero & Heroine have awoken from a sixty year torpor after overstepping their limits and incurring an epically-disheartening divine chastisement.Have they learned their lesson? Or will the heroes once again exceed the bounds and upset the metaphysical and natural order? Can these two unstoppably powerful charmers effectively battle what's bad without getting carried away and making things worse?Canny Smith and her team of crackerjack intelli...

We've asked, "Will readers enjoy reading this?" to many and diverse pieces, choosing for this volume only those cases where we felt fairly confident of a "Yes, this is both readable and worth reading".Selections include tales of the Pure Love industry (from "First Loves" and elsewhere); essays lying along various points of the lyrical-to-philosophical spectrum (from "First Essays"); frame stories of Bartleby Willard's life and times at Skullvalley After Whistletown Bookmakers, both...

A collection of lyrical and philosophical essays from the fictional author Bartleby Willard and his fictional editor Amble Whistletown. Something Deeperism, Pure Love, Reincarnation, Free Will, the Vague Longing, Amoebas and Enlightenment: All this and more await the lucky reader of this beautifully ebound unlimited edition!It's crazy long.For a run-down of the many essays and links to several of them, see:https://www.from-bartleby.com/chapter-of-first-loves-with-link...

In 1968, the U.S. Secretary of Labor and his wife purchased a farm in the Capon Valley in Appalachia's foothills, a hundred miles west of Washington, and began taking weekend refuge from political aggravation. Relieved a few months later ("by popular demand" the ex-Secretary puts it) of formal obligation, the Wirtzes found themselves dropping out more and more from capital affairs and becoming increasingly attached to the little community of Yellow Spring, West Virginia, unincorporated. Wi...