Killing Time: from a writer's journal: commentary on the human condition`

Killing Time is a collection of largely humorous critical commentary and discussion on everything from politics to insanity and religion. The segments taken from the authors daily journal covering the period late 2012 to early 2014 were intended to kill some time while resting from the demands of completing a complex work of psychology and neurology that is The Insanity Myth (near ready for publication). Autobiographical in style Killing Time is a work of creative non-fiction rife with humour satire and personal unloading. It is also perhaps less brave than simply world-weary in offering a sincere challenge to some of the most respected thinkers/writers on science and subjective thought (the author is of senior years). In this Killing Time takes no prisoners--playfully and otherwise it cuts thrusts and taunts even tall poppies. Widely it teases lampoons elevates and deprecates humanity itself; its authority is based on scholarship inner and outer adventure experience and age. Covertly and openly it offers the reader an uncommon and refreshing perspective on subjective discourses and language terms; it claims no belief and avoids the usual hackneyed polarization in contentious issues discussed. In doing so it arises spontaneously from what was of significance and interest to the author day-by-day. It is a book about how humans are spending time in the greater world of time itself--and occasionally killing time with the therapy of comic relief.Killing Time is like a holiday jaunt through the authors interests attitudes moods abilities life-style global locality commitments and sense of fate; it is a fluent spill of prose that occasionally uses a bit of doggerel or a vignette to condense and deliver its message.Foremost Killing Time is a book for Australian readers largely because of the political and social content. Though written with no target audience in mind the books humour pathos and satire will find readers amongst writers journalists and astute readers/observers in any country.