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The Milk of Paradise.


The Milk of Paradise

Todd Crump crump  
v. crumped, crump·ing, crumps

v.tr.
1. To crush or crunch with the teeth.

2. To strike heavily with a crunching sound.

v.intr.
 

Nightrain Publishing

8200 Shenandoah, Austin, TX 78753

www.themilkofparadise.com (512) 837-4767

0977800806 $18.99 360 pages

"The Milk of Paradise" is a gripping, disturbing novel about an addicted physician's struggle against self destruction. The seduction Seduction
See also Flirtatiousness.

Selfishness (See CONCEIT, STINGINESS.)

Armida

modern Circe; sorceress who seduces Rinaldo. [Ital. Lit.: Jerusalem Delivered]

Aurelius Dorigen’s

nobleminded would-be seducer.
 of morphine, also called "the milk of paradise," is graphically described. The author's background knowledge as a trained physician is evident throughout "The Milk of Paradise." Frequent brief passages describe or illustrate common somatic somatic /so·mat·ic/ (so-mat´ik)
1. pertaining to or characteristic of the soma or body.

2. pertaining to the body wall in contrast to the viscera.


so·mat·ic
adj.
 symptoms and underlying possible diagnoses or causes. These illuminate the development of the novel and do not in any way detract from detract from
verb 1. lessen, reduce, diminish, lower, take away from, derogate, devaluate << OPPOSITE enhance

verb 2.
 the flow. It is a kind of reader introduction to something like medical thinking, which permeates the whole narrative. This makes it all the more frightening when the protagonist, Dr. David Madrigol, slides ever deeper into the chilling haze of narcotic narcotic, any of a number of substances that have a depressant effect on the nervous system. The chief narcotic drugs are opium, its constituents morphine and codeine, and the morphine derivative heroin.

See also drug addiction and drug abuse.
 addiction. His love for a beautiful social worker at first seems to have potential to help him rescue himself, but ultimately he blames himself for her death and chooses another more deadly mistress yet again. The final redemption is difficult to believe, but it is as good a resolution as any to the terrible existence of the addict. All the thinking and cravings and patterns of response of the body are graphically described, so that the reader experiences a convincing part of the addict's life. It is a terrifying ter·ri·fy  
tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies
1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten.

2. To menace or threaten; intimidate.
 book, yet vital to experience. More writings are anticipated from this talented author.
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