About the author
Roy Luna: Roy Luna is a retired French professor who dabbles in the arts, tinkers with music, reads heavily in fiction and history, but does not neglect biographies or science. His main efforts these days are devoted to writing a trilogy of novels based on events occurring during the years between the death of Voltaire (1778) and the French Revolution (1789-94), years rich in both enlightened human progress and dark, evil terror.
Three times a week he volunteers at Dunbar Old Books, making sure orphaned books find their way to other readers. His library at home may have surpassed the 10,000 mark, and he valiantly tries to read them all… The one important thing to retain about Roy is his horror at the sins, the injustice, the atrocities, the crimes against humanity that are perpetrated and justified in the name of religion. Any belief system that condones such savagery has discarded its humanity, abandoned its compassion, and forsaken its principles of empathy, tolerance and love of one’s neighbor.
A man realizes one day that there is a foreign conscience inside his head: it speaks to him, with a German accent. Thus begins the saga of finding out how this came to be, and the attempt to return this outsider to his own body. Imagine one day hearing a…
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The second volume of Roy Luna’s trilogy about the Eighteenth century, A Revolutionary Education, in which Zénobe Bosquet, an acolyte of Voltaire and a fervent believer in the forces of Reason and Enlightenment, accompanies the late philosopher’s library to Russia, a long and dangerous voyage that takes him through new lands…
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by Roy Luna I recently came into the acquisition of a fine collection of books, cheap, all by the same author, published by The Swedenborg Society from 1949 to 1966, beautifully printed on thick, creamy paper and bound, not in leather, but in sturdy boards nonetheless. They should last another…
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Pensées inutiles Par Roy Luna Pourquoi inutiles? Parce que chacun croira ce qu’il veut, et j’aurai de la peine à le convaincre de ma façon de voir le monde et notre condition là-dedans. Pendant la deuxième décade de ma vie, débutant par l’âge 13 avec l’arrivée de ma crise religieuse,…
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An Essay with a few asides, digressions, and deviations | By Roy Luna From my standpoint here in the West I feel that one can no longer say just “religious oppression” when speaking about this important section of the Rights of Man. At least not in our countries where tolerance…
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