Therese & Tiamat

Publisher Marketing: Therese & Tiamat is a novella and a fantasy, but rooted in real history. It is about the unnoticed, their enemies, about their escape and their dream-time. Its subject is a French woman, largely unnoticed, alive in the C18th, who was midwife to the French Revolution and its Terror. Therese Levasseur is this woman. She lived with Jean Jacques Rousseau as his servant. A reputed dullard and shrew. She was scolding ditch-water in the eyes of the intelligentsia and so they were blind to how she was a tributary leading back to the sea of Tiamat. Tiamat is a Babylonian sea-dragon and goddess. She is pure myth. She represents life in the warm waters of the primeval sea before the urge to leave these waters and be human: life before culture and civilization, life as ecstatic dream. It is this Therese glimpses as she comes to terms with Rousseau's betrayal of her and the trauma it introduces into her life. Her way back to Tiamat requires the destruction of her society and she does this by leading Rousseau's theoretical enterprise far beyond territory he would ever have had the courage or desire to cross alone. She is the unseen muse in Rousseau's life, she drives him mad and then she kills him. Contributor Bio:  Taylor, Roger Roger Taylor is the author of ART AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (revised edition available on Kindle), BEYOND ART (revised edition available on Kindle from May 2014) and INVISIBLE CELLS AND VANISHING MASSES (Kindle). He is a Marxist philosopher whose subjects include the As If, Rethinking Marxism and the Philosophy of Escape. He has played an influential role in the deconstruction of Art and Culture. For over 20 years he taught philosophy at Sussex University, UK. A variety of his contributions have been published in many books and journals. Roger Taylor is the terrestrial form of the avatar Rumpledsilkskin and INVISIBLE CELLS AND VANISHING MASSES is their most ambitious undertaking, made available May Day 2013. It develops a Theory of Virtual Revolution and a Theory of Make-Believe. Roger Taylor's book of love poetry to his wife, entitled AM AM US (poems written over 50 years) is now available as a Kindle book soon to be followed by a print version at CreateSpace. Books to follow include 2 novels, presently going through the stage of final drafting, one THE UNHOLY BIBLE and the other CONFESSIONS OF A PISSOIR. He is also writing a new philosophical work about the theory of consciousness. Everything he writes is both serious and subversive.