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Selected Works by James Coppock

About the Author . . .

James N Coppock (1964 - present) was born and raised in western Iowa and received his Associate of Arts Degree from Kansas City Kansas Community College in 1992. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 2006 from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN and his Master of Arts in English with an Advanced Writing Certificate at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. in 2009. James currently resides in the Philippines.

My Dream

I awoke early one July morning 2006 with the remnants of a dream suspended in my mind like the aroma of a good coffee or cocoa one has not tasted in quite awhile. The details fade quickly, yet I recall lying upon a bed, my death bed perhaps, and being asked a final question by a vaguely familiar yet unplaceable figure. He was significant to me in some form or fashion, though what that form was I cannot say. He inquired, staring into my eyes, "What would you have us do?"

Weakly, my voice fading almost as fast as the memory of my dream just as my body seemed to awaken, I looked up at the figure and, smiling, said "Pursue your bliss..." then added after a pause, "...and do no harm."

There was a significance in the dream on which I can neither wholly extrapolate nor fully quantify, yet it seems to me that these two phrases - pursue your bliss and harm no one - encapsulate the entire reason for the meaning of our lives, the guiding principles, if you will, which draw me closer and closer to my humanity and the humanity within us all.

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by

a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
- Chapman Cohen

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Satan upon his throne in Pandaemonium

"No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal.

Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness."
- Honore de Balzac

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He said, "Why should I tarry?"

And smiled with tranquil eye;

"In destinies sad or merry,

True men can but try."

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

(Lines 562-565)