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Daniel Shortell

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Daniel Shortell is a recent escapee of NYC currently marooned in a culture-free enclave of central New York. At university, he was fully indoctrinated with corporatism. The resulting pathology completely dismantled his psyche resulting in a 2009 exodus from the corporate world. His real education came from traveling, tinkering and reading the ideas of those ostracized by The System. When not writing, he enjoys building things and incubating the seeds of revolutionary ideology in the tender mind of his 5 year old. th!s is his second novel.

Average rating: 3.88 · 17 ratings · 14 reviews · 2 distinct works
Where's Unimportant

3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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On the Commonwealth
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“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life... and hold it fixed so that 100 years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again.”
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Jesse Hanson Daniel wrote: "Hi Jesse, it's good to connected to yet another readerly /writerly type.

Thanks for the recommend. Your book looks like something I would be interested in, as such, I have tossed it upon the TBR ..."


Grazie, Daniel


Daniel Shortell Hi Jesse, it's good to connected to yet another readerly /writerly type.

Thanks for the recommend. Your book looks like something I would be interested in, as such, I have tossed it upon the TBR list.

All the best!


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Jesse Hanson Thanks for adding me to your friends list here on Goodreads, Daniel. People seem to be saying interesting things about your book, Where's Unimportant. I like the title. Hope to get around to it one day, when my reading list gets a little shorter. Wishing you all success in your non-corporate adventures.
Hope you won't mind if I also ask you to consider my spiritual allegory, Song of George: Portrait of an Unlikely Holy Man, for your reading list. It's fiction but is inspired by events from my life. Experimental--cinematic--in style. Namaste, jesse


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