Sound Bite
The multifaceted topic of love is examined from all angles in an ongoing conversation between two thoughtful characters, Director and Handsome. Over coffee, over wine, over a certain stretch of time, they explore together the apparent and not-so-apparent nuances of friendship, attraction, respect and romance, why opposites attract and why common ground too is so necessary to us as we chart our course through life. While they're at it, they also compare notes on how to identify and approach a possible prospect and how to make the project a pleasure for everyone involved.
About the Author
Nick Pappas has published a series of over 20 thought-provoking books with Algora Publishing, examining ways to handle personal challenges, how to think about our relationships to each other and how to decide our own path in life, how to choose what we do and why, and how to get the most out of everyday life.
Nick teaches high school English Language Arts in Western New York. Prior to that he worked as a director and consultant in information technology. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. Nick has written numerous short stories and poems in addition to his philosophical dialogues.
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About the Book
In this captivating conversation, two smart people discuss what love is and why it needs to be pondered to be appreciated. Is love merely attraction, or a boost to our ego? Do some people really "fall in love all the time"?
The book is not just...
In this captivating conversation, two smart people discuss what love is and why it needs to be pondered to be appreciated. Is love merely attraction, or a boost to our ego? Do some people really "fall in love all the time"?
The book is not just abstract philosophy - Nick offers some good advice for singles as well as for people who are keen to keep their love alive. Once you find your One, how do you keep the magic going?
Both characters are looking for the love of their lives, and they understand that the best way to find something is to be clear about what you want. So, while they consider what aspects are most important ' looks, character, brains? Money? - And they also discuss a philosophical place to stand in while conducting the search.
It takes courage to start a conversation when you feel you may have a lot at stake, and it takes courage to walk away from 'good enough' in order to be free to find 'the One.' How do you get close without being burned? How do you avoid hurting another person?
The ideas in this book are presented in short snippets that can be read in just a few minutes at a time, or all in the course of one long and lovely evening. Pull up a chair and join the conversation!
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This book consists of one long conversation between Director and Handsome on the topic of love.
Who are these characters? Why don't they have traditional names?
Director is the one constant throughout the books I've written. He is a philosopher, and he does what you might expect a philosopher to do. Handsome appears only in this book. He is, as...
This book consists of one long conversation between Director and Handsome on the topic of love.
Who are these characters? Why don't they have traditional names?
Director is the one constant throughout the books I've written. He is a philosopher, and he does what you might expect a philosopher to do. Handsome appears only in this book. He is, as you might guess, handsome.
From Director's name we gather that he, well, directs. When I first conceived of him, I saw him as working in a company as a manager. That happened to be at a time when I, too, was working in a company as a manager. But, and I can't stress this enough ' Director isn't, and never was, me. None of my characters are me. None of my characters are anyone else in real life, for that matter.
Director is my idea of a philosopher. As such, he helps lead the conversations in my books. His name reminds us that he is often directing, even when he does so in less than obvious ways.
And isn't this how it once was? Someone named Weaver wove. Someone named Baker baked. So it is with my characters.
But what does Handsome do? He simply is; he is handsome. Naming him Handsome allowed me to keep present to the reader his looks throughout the conversation, as happens in life. But after a while, ideally, the name becomes merely a name. One forgets, or rather discounts the fact, that the other is good looking (or bad looking, or passing indifferent). One focuses simply on what is said.
And what is said is meant to be basic, simple. In my opinion, this is how we get to the fundamental. Accordingly, there is no prerequisite for a good understanding of this book.
I found the above quote from Francis Bacon, though it may seem dated, to be especially appropriate because of what it says about perfecting mankind. My book is about love in general, but I trust you'll sense an underlying concern with what he calls friendly love.
I hope you enjoy it.
' Nick Pappas
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Introduction
1. Play
2. Handsome
3. Roughly Matched
4. Beautiful Minds
5. Superior
6. Appreciation, Equality
7. Roles
8. Self-Esteem?
9. Attraction
10. Nothing
11. Something
12. Best
13. Handsome, 2
14. Truth
15. Choice
16. Growing
17. Saving It
18. Attraction, 2
19. The Intimacy of Growth
20. The End
21. Growth Defined
22. Outward
23. Friends And Wholes
24. Wings
25. Fleeting Love
26. Melting
27. Sun
28. What It Is
29. Hate
30. A Suggestion
31. Intense, Opposed
32. Insecurity
33. Balance
34. Jealousy
35. Protection
36. Doubt
37. Love, Relationships
38. Integrity
39. At First Sight
40. Director
41. Force
42. Massive Objects
43. Orbiting
44. Mass
45. The Ideal
46. A Model
47. The Source
48. Helping
49. Education
50. Power
51. Fame
52. Summing It Up
53. Love Me For Me
54. Profoundly Un-Profound
55. Faking
56. Infatuation
57. Fleeting Love, 2
58. Appreciating
59. Good, Better, Happy
60. Fulfillment
61. Better and Happy
62. Love
63. In Love
64. Tragic
65. Light and Sparkling
66. The Game
67. A Problem
68. Deep and Clear
69. Friends and Lovers
70. At Bottom
71. Muck
72. Ground
73. Circles
74. Bad Circles
75. Ambassadors
76. Together
77. Teaching and Learning
78. Harmony
79. Different Strings
80. Closer
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81. Silence
82. Peace
83. Moving
84. Those Shoes
85. Excited By Excitement
86. Money Can't
87. Free
88. A New Dance?
89. Touch
90. What If
91. Luck
92. Ears, Eyes
93. The Nose
94. Meant To Be
95. Simmers and Boils
96.� One And Only One
97. Release
98. No Madness Here
99. Fools
100. At First Sight, 2
101. The Wrong Kind Of Love
102. The Leap
103. The Ones
104. Ending It
105. Vigor
106. Common Sense
107. Ignorant
108. Pain
109. Beautiful
110. Something Else
111. Soul
112. Help
113. Clues
114. Make Good
116. Scaring Them Off
117. Mistake, Next Step
118. Gentleness
119. Anything Else?
120. Need to Know
121. What's Good For Me
122. Why Not
123. Sparks
124. Worth It
125. Believing In Love
126. Understanding
127. The Lists
128. Lies and Untruths
129. Bonds
130. Purity, Foundation
131. Falling Apart
132. Friends
133. The One?
134. A Debt Of Gratitude
135. In Common
136. Normal, Philosophical
137. Philosophy
138. Philosophy's House
139. Walking Away
140. A Mind of Your Own
141. Domination
142. Born To Be
143. Planning
144. More Than Luck
145. Flirting
146. Serious
147. Weight
148. Laughter
149. Air
150. Rekindling
151. The Comic
152. The Tragic
153. Stronger
154. Ambition
155. Music
156. Pretension, Reason
157. Love the Music
158. A Love Who Loves
159. Appreciation
160. Degrees of Unique?
161. End
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Pages 214
Year: 2016
BISAC: FAM029000 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance
BISAC: FAM051000� FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dating
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