PAGES, LEAVES, VERSOS, AND RECTOS

1.1  The trimmed sheets of paper that make up a book are often referred to as leaves. A page is one side of a leaf. The front of the leaf, the side that lies to the right in an open book, is called the recto page (or simply recto). The back of the leaf, the side that lies to the left when the leaf is turned, is called the verso. Rectos are odd-numbered pages; versos are even-numbered.

CHAPTERS

1.62  In the printed book, each chapter normally starts on a new page, verso or recto, and its opening page carries a drop folio and no running head. The first chapter ordinarily begins on the recto (right hand side). The chapter display usually consists of the chapter number (the word chapter is often omitted) and chapter title and sometimes an epigraph as well.

Epigraph

1.38  An author may wish to include an epigraph – a pertinent quotation—at the beginning of the book. If there is no dedication, the epigraph may be placed on page v. When there is also a dedication, the epigraph may follow on a new recto page (p. vii) or, to save space, may be put on page vi or on a blank verso page facing the first page of the text. Less customary but possible in certain books is the placement of an epigraph on the title page or half-title page. Epigraphs are also occasionally used at chapter openings and even, although rarely at the beginnings of subsections within chapters.

In titles of two or more lines, punctuation should be omitted at the end of a line unless it is essential for clarity. Footnote reference numbers or symbols should not appear anywhere in the chapter display. A note that refers to the chapter as a whole should be unnumbered and should precede the number notes, whether it appears on the first page of the chapter or in the endnotes.

1.64  When offprints, or reprints, of individual chapters are planned, as in a conference volume, each chapter should begin in a recto page so that the pages of the chapter may simply be gathered and found without having to be reimposed or rearranged.

Reference: “The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition,” The University of Chicago Press

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Minnie Estelle Miller,
Mz Minerva Publishing
Founder, writer, essayist & administrator
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Prologue

 Comes A Graying Sky

 Bill got into his car and sat in silence for a couple of minutes, still feeling the heat from Jina’s body. He pondered the sweet pleasure for a while and analyzed it aloud. “There’s just no explaining a woman. This one knows what she wants and how to go after it. Our friendship has moved to another level. Sex, with a capital S has become part of our business relationship. Aw, shiiit!” he said pounding the steering wheel. He yelled into space, “Damn-damn-damn! What’s happening to you, man? Jina Cook has no idea who Bill Bradley is, wouldn’t understand even if you told her about his ‘other side.’ Hear me, man, danger, danger!”

 Comes A Rainsquall

 After a week of fretting, Bill finally got up the nerve to ask for help from the only person he knew would not turn him away, Samara Kincaid.

He hesitated then rang Sam’s doorbell. At the sound of her buzzer, he entered the hallway and slowly mounted the stairs to her condo door.

“Bill! Come on in, brother…want a drink?” Sam asked, eyeing him with compassion. She knew why he had come.

“Naw,” Bill said standing in her living room, again, a brief silence. Hands in his pockets, he slid a glance at Sam and said, “I need your help.” He moved to the sofa, unbuttoned his suit coat, sat with legs spread apart and elbows on his knees. He had difficulty deciding what to do with his hands, so he clasped them tightly in front of his mouth. For half a second he just gazed at her in a silent plea. She gazed back and waited. The ball was in his court.

“I told Jina that I’m bisexual,” Bill said in a near whisper.

As for the health care bill, I am reading it to see what it says. I downloaded it. I find that far too many people have conversations about its contents and have not read it. Or simply take the word of one side or the other. I don’t take sides. I don’t care for politics or government and don’t really believe this system is salvageable. I’m only on my side and the side of truth. I really don’t care about this dual conversation, republican vs.democrat. Blah blah blah. They are all the same, all being run by the same people and talented at keeping people divided. And people actually buy into the divisive conversation and get angry with friends and family members who are not democrat/republican, for a president/against a president, and all the crazy conversation I see going around. I believe the entire system is heading the way of the Roman Empire…as it should given how corrupt it has been since its inception over 200 years ago.

I can imagine another and better way of living. But so many have been brainwashed into not only believing this is the only way to live, but not even stepping into imagining another way of life. No one proposes anything different. No one imagines anymore. Everyone just follows, like sheep to the slaughter. And everyone has been so well trained to think that something different could never be implemented. Defeated before they even begin through brainwashing.

Anyhoo, I’m a different fish, sis. As you can see. LOL. I imagine differently. I read a lot of history as far back as written history goes. Then, I examine oral history…from nations around the world. I don’t watch TV, haven’t in over 4 years. yet I know more about what is going on in the world than the average person. I don’t take what anyone tells me as truth without examining and researching what is truth. I’m not taken in by propaganda. And I don’t think what others want me to think just because they said so.

Bottom line, anyone seeking for me to pick a “side” has stopped at the wrong doorstep. I don’t believe that any president, from the first one in history, to this one, can do anything. They have been and are all puppets to those who are truly running this system. Given that, nothing signed into law will be to our benefit. From the first law in history, to the last. From what I’ve observed, with each new law, humans become more and more enslaved and closer to an Orwellian society. Closer to the Brave New World Huxley talked about.  It is a slow but deliberate process. Some of us won’t live to see it come to full fruition. But if we are not alert, our children will suffer. The mainstream media doesn’t show the madness. I read off the beaten path news and see the craziness going on that is not televised. The mainstream media shows only what they want people to know. They show only what they want people to talk about. And they talk about only those things they want folks to focus on. And you know, the sad part is people have only those conversations. They never veer from the media scripted dialogue. And true to form, they self divide based on the brainwashing from both sides.

Personally, I’m sick of the madness. And I REFUSE to have the conversations they want me to have. I REFUSE to be divided from my brothers and sisters because some talking head has told me to be divided, either directly or indirectly. NO one guides my thinking but me.  I am about a paradigm shift. And that shift includes critical thinking, not robotic repetition of the mass psyche, or parroting the speak of these automatons. I want my people to begin to THINK. Create new thoughts. End the old conversations. Burn them to ash and plant new seeds, break ground on the psyche of mankind and let fresh soil yield to creation. We are creative beings as people of color. We need to begin allowing our birthright to show through.

I’m on the side of truth. And it’s the only conversation I want to have about this world and the things going on in it. So, I am reading the new health care plan. That’s right, all about 2,000 pages of it. I want to know the truth about it, not what a republican or democrat tells me about it. So this way, when I speak, I speak from a place of truth, not from someone who is on this or that side. Taking sides, in my humble opinion, is very low on the intellectual scale. It is not on the path to spiritual enlightenment. And I am about always moving to a new level spiritually. Any conversation that does not move my people to a new way of thinking and being, I avoid. If folks wanna talk with me, they have to be ready to have a new conversation, one that doesn’t take any side but that of truth. And one that doesn’t defend or reject any one person simply because they like or don’t like the person.

There is a quote I learned recently that speaks to where I am. And why I am a thinker first, above anything else. And a seeker of truth.

“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.”

~ ~ ~ henri poincare

I’m about thought and truth. Period.

namaste, zaji

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Celebrating Toni Morrison

Dr. Morrison’s writing career started while editing for Random House in 1971.

We can’t forget that Dr. Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. Her latest accomplishments were What Moves at the Margin, published April 2008 and a children’s book is Peeny Butter Fudge by Tony Morrison and son Slade. For ages 4-8, 32 pages, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books; First Edition edition (September 15, 2009)

What Moves At the Margin, a nonfiction book.

Below is a section that stood out for me immediately.

 “His name was John Solomon Willis, and when at age five he heard from the old folks that ‘the Emancipation Proclamation was coming’ he crawled under the bed. It was his earliest recollection of what was to be his habitual response to the promises of white people: horror and an instinctive yearning for safety. He was my grandfather.” (Page 3, What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction (hardcover, Univ PR of Mississippi [TAD], April 1, 2008, page 3)

I celebrate you, Dr. Morrison. You have been my secret guide for years.

Whispers From The Mirror A novel
Belle Deville fights against discrimination for working mothers. Her careers as lawyer and freelance TV commentator leave little time for Brianna, her only child. Belle’s sermons on independence results in Brianna hiding behind a mask of feminism. And her daughter adopts distrust of men resulting from Belle’s failed relationship.

This causes Brianna to live in denial until she’s well into her 40s. She goes so far as to become celibate to avoid men. Rape by an acquaintance reinforces her mistrust and places a heavy burden on her psyche. She doesn’t know her father, her mother never explains his absence, and he never appears in her life. Mirror-Lady, an apparition and guardian angel, appears in her bathroom mirror at will. She tells Brianna that if she doesn’t open her heart she will have a loveless life and die like her mother—alone.

Minnie Estelle Miller
Marvelously Mature Author and Essayist

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Paraphrasing most of this.

Dr. Seward’s patient Renfield had escaped. He was too dangerous a person to be roaming around. He came upon Renfield pressed against…the oak door of a chapel, talking to someone and heard him say:

“I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave, and You will reward me, for I shall be faithful. I have worshipped You long and afar off. Now that You are near, I await Your commands, and You will not pass me by, will You, Dear Master, in Your distribution of good things?”

~ ~ Dracula by Bram  Stoker, (Signet Classics) Pg. 104

Mania? I wonder…

Minnie Estelle Miller