The Rebellion: Introduction and Prologue

The First and Near Final Draft

of

The Rebellion

as it is being written

Book Four of the

Merlyn’s Mind Series

A Novel

By Richard H. Orndorff

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Copyright © 2009 by Richard H. Orndorff

This is a work of fiction. The characters, names, incidents, mythology, culture and dialogue are the products of the author’s imagination they or are used fictitiously.

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Dedication

To the species Homo Sapiens. To the Dead as well as Living.

Introduction

One of my fondest dreams is to create a practical place in my head where all children and adults are equal in worth and dignity and where they all can receive good health and an education that is worthy of their growth and dignity as a human being.

As I see these books, I am working towards that concept in an albeit unorthodox way. As long as I consciously see this objective between the lines I will continue writing the books until the sixth of the series is complete. As I do, the act of writing allows me my own self-dignity to continue to mentally grow and mature. Unconsciously, I feel people are better than our societies give them credit to be, that we can do better as a species and everyone can live more humanely than we presently do.

If this fourth book, which focuses on the beginning of the First Rebellion in the Place of the Dead some 2700 years ago, helps me reach my objective in my head, then good. The first three books of the Merlyn series made me feel freer within. That is worth more than any amount of money. If the next three books help me feel even better about having lived a life, then this book along with the next two will have been worth the endeavor.

Prologue

This is Merlyn. The date is 15 December 2009. I have been here among the Living since Merlyn’s Mind was published in May 2008. This is certainly not the earthly reality I bodily left in the fourteenth century. Being dead and conscious is one thing. Being living again and conscious is quite an ordeal.

Gravity is overwhelming and it is an immediate distortion to an otherwise recently hovering mind. Both gravity and the dimensional aspects of the body are suffocating to this mind in any case. As far as one of the Dead is concerned common physics distorts reality as much as it clarifies. 

I thought I was here to tell the story of the Rebellion because it is a simplified fictionalized account and I am well suited to tell a fictional tale; however, Amorella has decided to tell the abbreviated story herself with me sitting in the margins until the sixth book which focuses on the second rebellion of the Dead during the mid-twentieth century. 

Richard's desired to write honest fiction is limited to six volumes labeled under the Merlyn's Mind series, each book is built on the concept that if G---D had asked Richard to tell any honest fiction he could come up with, this eventual series would be the fiction he would give to G---D if so requested.

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This rebellion among the First Ten Thousand of the Dead was a matter of consciousness first. These two questions below are basic to what rebellions are almost always about and this one was no different. 

One, who am I? And, two, how do I wish to exist within myself and within my relationship to others of my species?

These are two existential questions the author first asked himself and his response to these questions is found between the lines of the first three books as well as this, the fourth book. The format of this book is similar to the three already published through iUniverse at www.iuniverse.com.

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