The Supreme Witness

Daniel Tines has become convinced he is the incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva lord of fertility and destruction. However if such awareness is real it brings him little comfort. Caught between trying to enlighten the scenery and characters around him or detaching into narcissism and watching events unfold without compassion Daniel struggles with the innate insanity of concurring creation and death. If there are no causes left to fight for he foresees no sense in committing himself to the continual bombardment of his senses and mind by external stimuli seeking to control him. Disengaged and commitment-phobic he searches for goddesses to mate with yet believes he is not intended to breed for part of his duty as Shiva is to end the cycle of the deus ex machina. Doubting whether he dances the cosmic gavotte or simply away from problems he half-heartedly pursues education careers and life in the military. <i>The Supreme Witness</i> is told in four narrative forms and spans the years between 1980-1990.