Alas . . . hospitalization finds Omni befriended by Nurse Seattle and young radiographer Niv. After he discharges himself, wounds weeping Seattle crosses professional / marriage lines to visit. One night of folklove with Boho Bee before taken from Harbourton, to Metroaux, then an inevitable return in crutches where Niv introduces big bro Nick, who fudges paperwork at the majestic-yet-eerie place of employment dominating the Zone1 skyline. A Mumbai fling endures with workmate Neon great times in the Triangular Kilometres ("in the city") are had when she, Omni, Niv and Quetzal have hilarious happenings heading to their shared SE1 flat. But Neon dies tragically and Vienna, calamitous and poetic, is framed after a night with wicked but hard-bodied Mr Rella. Before then, or 911, or even Vee's capture and trial, Nick sips in The Herbal Cafeterium W1: kids with not so keen Vee? Inside trading with closest law-bending colleague Lanky Peter? While protecting young protège Omni . . . Meanwhile in Hoeswater with Evelyn: After leaving Adam sports lout with corresponding opinions Seattle bumps into Laureate and sistren Abigail, Volga and co. Reunited she describes the temples "beautifully ugly philosulum" to Omni, yet he just wants to know what's up with the "Ugly Girls" title? Unbeknown Mother Laureate " . . . knew Omniversal would come". Long-estranged by now, Nick, Peter and Omni eye-up the same jacket. The weekend swelters but Nick walks over to WC2 to claim it first. Bags full tube-bound he witnesses what looks like a lovers tiff! Janet, mature but hot, throws her wedding band at Michael and lover in front of the Bluecoats. Ordered off, without purse or keys he just has to inquire . . ."Are you OK" . . . ?

Noted sex therapist Sandra Scantling shows how any woman can tap her latent sexual energy to enjoy ever-richer levels of sexual fulfillment. Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Sex focuses on identifying barriers to pleasure and expanding a woman's capacity for sexual enjoyment.

If John O'Loughlin is 'In Disguise' here it's because, these days, he does not see himself primarily as a poet but, rather, as a philosopher, if a self-taught one, who once wrote poems, many of which were of a philosophical order and thus an alternative or formative approach to his philosophy-proper. The 180 or so poems collected together here are all readerly, or capable of being read, as opposed, like the bulk of Mr O'Loughlin's abstract poetry, to being contemplated (because non-readerly), and have accordingly been described as verse (whether 'rhymed' or 'free') to distinguish them from anything abstract, or non-readerly. 'Lyric' might suffice as a more conventional description, but, frankly, that would hardly apply to the majority of the poems in this collection which, as stated, are distinctly philosophical and the product, in consequence, of a disguised philosopher, a philosopher in disguise.

The Intimate State explores how state-supported mental health initiatives made emotional intimacy both politically valued and personally desired during a crucial period of modern British psychiatric and cultural history. Focusing on the transformative decades following World War II, Teri Chettiar narrates the surprising story of how individual emotional wellbeing became conflated with inclusive democracy and subsequently prioritized in the eyes of scientists, politicians, and ordinary citizens. This new model of emotional health promoted nuclear families and monogamous marriage relationships as fundamental for individual and political stability and fostered unexpected collaborations between British mental health professionals and social reformers who sought to resolve the Cold War crisis in political and moral values. However, this model also generated backlash and resistance from communities who were excluded from its vision of idealized intimacy, including women, queer people, and adolescents. Ultimately, these communities would foster a new generation of activists who would turn the state agenda on its head by demanding political recognition for marginalized citizens on the basis of emotional health. Through new archival research, The Intimate State traces the rise of a modern psychiatric view of the importance of intimate relationships and the resultant political culture that continues to inform identity politics--and the politics of social equality--to this day.

Who Wants to Laugh? By: John L. Smith Sr. A variety of thoughts, joke, and anecdotes to keep readers laughing! Some romantic, some religious, and some just downright witty—readers won’t be able to turn the page fast enough to soak up the next quip!

With his 'Collected Supernotes' author John O'Loughlin has combined, on a highly abstract basis, material derived from the independently published titles, Devil and God – The Omega Book, From Materialism to Idealism, Towards the Supernoumenon, Elemental Spectra, Critique of Post-Dialectical Idealism, Philosophical Truth, Veritas Philosophicus, and Last Judgements, which span the period 1985–93, with a view to bringing some kind of strict chronology to bear on a series of writings dubbed 'supernotational', to distinguish them from essays on the one hand and aphorisms on the other, thereby allowing him to establish a kind of intermediate position between essays and aphorisms in the interests of what became a gradual progression towards an enhanced sense of philosophical logic commensurate, so he believes, with 'Supertruth' and, ultimately, with a kind of plateau of aphoristic purism. – A Centretruths Editorial

THE OMEGA QUARTET, so-called because the contents are largely of an omega-oriented order of transcendentalism with ideological overtones, is comprised of four books of poetry written during the early 1980s, viz. 'Stressing the Essential', 'Spiritual Intimations', 'The Modern Death', and 'Trees', and provides an alternative approach to the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism that has the virtue of bringing all of John O'Loughlin's poetic works of a philosophical nature together in one volume.

This substantial collection of loosely aphoristic philosophy, which I am apt to term 'supernotational', embraces the Christian dichotomy of Devil and God in such fashion that one is left in no doubt that the former is alpha and the latter omega and, hence, that God, or godliness, is the repudiation of all that the Devil stands for. But this is a torturously complex and protracted path, which is why 'The Omega Book' is anything but an easy read, despite the efforts of its author to make it as logically and stylistically consistent as possible, and to offer real hope that victory for God over the Devil is still possible even in this day and age, when cynicism with regard to the possibility of religious progress seems to be at an all-time high, and largely because of erroneous religious conceptions that pander to the one even as they ostensibly acknowledge the other.