Personal Myth; Personal Canon

All readers have favorite books. Postmodernists deal in personal myth and each personal myth is symbol to a canon of theory, of philosophy, of experience. Significant to the writing of my novel in progress is that there is a gap in the canon implied by my personal myth in which an unknown volume fits and I am writing that volume, a simple and legitimate motivation.
Human knowledge increases by a process of 'puzzling', finding a missing piece that nears the larger puzzle to completion with Gestalt moments of paradigm shifts when puzzles are recognizably complete and perspectives shift. We live in such an age of perspective shift, a Gestalt moment. Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are only a century old and the String Theory that unifies them less than that. Science is now working in Information Theory. It will be another century before we acculturate the descriptively powerful image of scalar fields decaying into particles and all that that implies, a century away from understanding these magnificent theoretical constructs in our cultural behavior.
I have a personal need to write this book and I perceive social value in its existence. This is a difficult and dark dystopian age where meaning is dear and found largely in personal terms. By examining the human condition within the framework of my personal canon and filtered by my personal myth, I might have the germ of idea that will provide the missing piece to someone's personal myth and perhaps contribute to a New Grand Narrative if such a thing is possible. And so I write.

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