{"product_id":"metamorphosos-eston-e-roberts-9781959895732","title":"Metamorphosos: A Proposed Path to Independent Living","description":"\u003cp\u003eEston Eugene Roberts was born in New Orleans, LA, on April 12, 1932, to Arthurlene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSutton and Carl Daniel Roberts. His mother worked as a hotel maid and his father, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esome years older than his wife, was a traveling magazine salesman who abandoned\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis wife and two children in 1936. The family of three then relocated to Damascus, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGA, where they lived for a time with a great-uncle named Gary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a year, Eston's mother re-married, and the family moved to a large log\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehome on the edge of Hilburn Hammock in an adjoining county. In addition to his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estepfather's parents, the house was already home to four siblings, and the addition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof three new family members made, understandably, a stressful situation. His\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emother, essentially a city girl, was shown no sympathy for her lack of agricultural\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecompetence, and the two older girls banded in tandem, forcing her to do their laundry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was no coincidence, given these pressures, that his mother began to suffer foaming-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat-the-mouth seizures, and he remembers retreating to the north end of the long \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efront porch and screaming \"Help! Help! Help!\" at the top of his lungs. Over time, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eescaping that feeling of helplessness became the lodestone of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEston's stepfather was a hard taskmaster--opening often that he was doing a man\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eday's work at nine years of age and was quick to point out Eston's failures to measure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eup, occasioning the defensive remonstrance: \"I don't care, I'm not going to be a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efarmer anyway!\"-a vow he was able to keep, having spent most of his working\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyears as a college administrator and teacher of English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEston and his late wife, Dorothy, were brought into the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworld five children, all of whom have showered\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis life with blessings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetamorposos seeks to re-define meta-phor as the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esource of everything on the planet, providing, in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe process, a rationale for independent living, a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esuggested path for liberation from the hypocrisy of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereligions and reflexive living, and the wherewithal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto assume responsibility for a self-directed existence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebased on the concept of grounded integrity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author is pleased to acknowledge his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eindebtedness to the metaphor that is quantum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emechanics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eston E. Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1959895737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781959895732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e West Point Print and Media LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.98d","brand":"Eston E. Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44311184670975,"sku":"9781959895732","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9aa0e3b1-428a-4d90-9c94-53c7391cdc3f.jpg?v=1695721496","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/metamorphosos-eston-e-roberts-9781959895732","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}