[stylist] {Spam?} Opinion-Editing desired for my Intro to Novel-Papa's Gold!

[Joanne Alongi]

Nice beginning.

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> On Oct 7, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Michael via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Papa's Gold!
> By Michael M. Tickenoff
> 
> This novel was composed some 6 years back. Its been waiting for the right
> time and so that time has begun. A historical adventure running about 500
> pages. 
> 
> 
> 
> Introduction: Herein I will begin to tell the story of hidden lives and
> forgotten times. I Lukian Evonovich, the third living son from my father
> Evon Evonivich by way of heart and through many circumstances of life
> have been left the task of putting pen to paper and bringing into
> remembrance the heritage of our family and its rich existence in a time
> that very few ever knew or remembered. I will narrate our story from
> memory, letters, diaries  and from my personal writings by which I now
> recall those past days high in the grand mountains of southern Russia,
> known to all as the Caucasus Mountains. 
> 
>            It was sometimes said that I was a child of misfortune, for
> frailty had been bestowed unto my life at birth with a debility of body.
> But with the goodness of common sense I was made fortunate by my
> grandfather Evon evonovich who patiently, in my youthful fragility,
> taught my hands to skillfully scroll ink across parchment, read and write
> in our native tongue of Russian, some in Turkish and a little of English
> and Armenian. In his silent patients I was taught to draft illustrations,
> design maps an figure numbers, keep records and write family letters and
> community petitions. My loving grandfather being of a most practical
> character, knew that frailty and weakness were no assets to a soul in a
> land where only the most rugged souls might survive, therefore proceeded
> to grant unto me the tools in which I might be given a chance to stand
> equal among those who would eventually survive all that a nation in
> turmoil could bring to bear upon its inhabitants. But I now know that my
> grandfather was a very wise man, possessing a pronounced gift of
> foresight regarding seasons of change and eras of calamity! 
> 
>            By all recorded and oral history, my brothers and sisters
> were the first generation to taste freedom out of the Russian caldron of
> upheaval and live long enough to know a changing world. By fate or by
> destiny our souls came to know life away from the oppression of evil
> rulers, false religions and higher authorities, while my parents and
> relatives were still haunted by their early lives, under a constant
> shadow of inherited suppression. This rugged and crude freedom rooted
> itself deep into each of us and birthed from us a different perspective
> than our fathers, who had grown up under the harsh hand of slavery,
> serfdom, the Orthodox church and the oppressive Russian pharaoh. In our
> youth my brothers and I were ignorant to some degree of their fears and
> pain until we also met their tyrannical enemy face to face, and on many
> occasions nearly having our own lives brought to an end. These tales and
> records will bare witness to our youthful joys, to our unexpected
> struggles with those haunting oppressors and to our adventures with
> strong powers and nations in upheaval. 
> 
>            Our youthful adventures of that early life will always remain
> the ark in which we escaped the tragedies of that time and our powerful
> heritage became the wall which protected us from forces we were blind to
> in our youth. The rugged life style of the mountains established each of
> us like winged birds who could swoop down from our heights and survive
> the harshest life if it ever came to that. These adventures which I will
> tell herein, brought our young lives unto the pentacle of enlightenment
> and placed into our hearts the seed of  lasting perceptions which have 
> since blossomed into fruitful orchards of understanding about men,
> nations and human nature. Therefore, I will begin to remember and recall
> the events of our youth and the many lessons of a time of struggle,
> immeasurable bonds of family, all sketched across the vivid landscape of
> unexpected adventures. Our era of maturity sternly blended into and out
> of the times of historical change.
> 
> 
> TickPub Thanks You,
> All The Best And More,
> Regards And Respect From Michael!
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