THE HERMES IN BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S is happening in reality to set a wrong right. The world-altering artist tricksters are in full view. They are always necessary when freedom and spiritual abundance have been closed off. It started with a concocted lie about John Mayer brewing from 2008 from a young plagiarist in the music industry with hired marketers and publicists from a capitalist's investment. Already ‘The Best Year of the Millennium’: From a 2024 New Year’s Eve Breakfast at Tiffany’s Cat Bar in Japan and Anderson Cooper’s Times Square Infectious Giggle, We Culminate on a Note First Discerned in the 1960s at Truman Capote’s Self-Entitled ‘Party of the Century’ (and Anderson Was There—In the Womb) . . . Not to Mention that Truman’s Last Word on the Matter, His Last Word, was a Story Written about Willa Cather Intended for a Birthday in October 1984—The Moment Katy Perry was Born. Read On, Party-Goers, and Get Ready for the Holidays!

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The Meeting of Horizons: Scheherazade’s Reawakening the Heart to Wonder in the Contemporary American Southwest

Completing the Story of Richard V. Francaviglia’s Go East, Young Man:  Imagining the American West as the Orient “The lives we live depend upon the stories we tell.”  Lee R. Edwards (paraphrasing Joan Didion) “The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake . . . but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.  It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one’s own rules.”  Joan Didion “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become...

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