Welcome to the LITERARY FICTION of

DREAM COMPROMISE

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

Links to the files of which follow the brief introduction below:-

 

This collection of short prose, dating from the autumn of 1981, includes what is arguably the most literary piece I have ever written - namely 'A Canine Crime', which deals with the problems of dog ownership in an age and society which has turned against such a thing, making it illegal.  Also featured here is 'Nolan's Investigations', which opens the collection on a playfully erotic note, and the partly autobiographical title-piece 'Dream Compromise', which has a trick in its tail, so to speak.... As, incidentally, does the project as a whole, in that it ends with a series of aphorisms, in keeping with the broadly philosophical bias of my mature literary works, in which literature is used primarily as a vehicle for philosophizing, and not simply to tell a story.  Hence the preference for ‘short prose’ as a description of what usually obtains here. – John O’Loughlin.

 

 

CONTENTS

 

NOLAN'S INVESTIGATIONS

 

LIVING IN THE CITY

 

A CANINE CRIME

 

AN EVENING WITH PAUL KELLY

 

PROSPECT OF A CHANGE

 

EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL

 

DREAM COMPROMISE

 

A SELECTION OF APHORISMS

 

All files Copyright © 1981-2011 John O’Loughlin

 

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DREAM COMPROMISE

 

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Other prose websites by the author include:-

A VISIT TO HELL

AN INTERVIEW REVIEWED

 

TEXT LINKS

 

 

Weblogs on MySpace

 

 

 

 

Email: john-oloughlin@centretruths.co.uk

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic of Ireland, of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split due to ethnic and other incompatibilities (they called her 'Mary Aldershot'), he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with intent to stay following the death of her British-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in Aldershot and, following the death and repatriation of his Irish-born grandmother, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, where, despite an enforced change of denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, he attended a state school. Graduating in 1970 with an assortment of CSE’s (Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCE’s (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved the comparatively short distance up to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, to work at the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square, where he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues. After a brief flirtation with Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End but retired from the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including ill-health, and proceeded to dedicate himself to a literary vocation which, despite a brief spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he has effectively continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview Reviewed (1979), Thwarted Ambitions (1980), Deceptive Motives (1981), and False Pretences (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and penned more than sixty titles of a philosophical nature, including Devil and God – The Omega Book (1985-6), Towards the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9), Philosophical Truth (1991-2) and, more recently, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2008) and The Centre of Truth (2009). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.

 

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