Escape from the Garden
By .'. Moni di MONTEBIANCO .'. W.C., M.A., Ph.D. (Hons.), Pres.,
Circolo Italiano delle Lettere ed Arti Primo LEVI, Gerusalemme
(Primo LEVI Italian Learned Circle for Letters and Arts, J'lem).
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BOOK RE'SUME':
This interdisciplinary publication presents the Wohl Rose Park of Jerusalem from tourist, botanical, architectural, religious, and philosophical prospectives. Later it takes off this standpoint and carries out a thorough cross-cultural study of the rose physical and metaphorical presence all over the world. The journey starts from cuisine, medicine, and sexuology; flies over to rosy love poetry, Rosicrucian Freemasonic lodges and world religions; and lands down in etymological study of famous people's surnames derived from the morpheme 'rose'. Besides, a number of intertextual digressions (e.g., into politics, geography, history, economics, &c.) made for those interested in the pursuit of trivia or further references. For the vast array of topics touched upon see the Keywords below. The author employs quotations and phrases in a dozen ancient and modern languages, which are always rendered into bracketted English for the reader's convenience. The book has been composed in a sophisticated academic manner hevily relying on the European intellectual and artistic traditions Dr. di Montebianco would study in different European universities and academies. The fundamental principles for the book are G-o-d-fearing pursuit of truth, Western matter-of-factness and exactness, and Eastern hospitable friendliness. In a way it is a creative Jewish posthumous continuation of 'Hermit of 69th Street by Jerzy N. Kosinski', the former American P.E.N. Club President, a tragic victim and survivor of the German Nazi Holocaust supported by the anti-Semitic Polish nation. This publication has been written according to the formula of an open book, which is going to be gradually enlarged in future by the author and his readers, whose personal feedback (suggestions, corrigenda, modifications, &c.) is very substantial to the author. Moni is not afraid of being labelled a socio-political radicalist or cultural revisionist. For the pursuit of Holistic World Peace Beyond Frontiers is the only rule that keeps him making friends with all people of good will, irrespective of their religious, ideological, racial, ethnic, national, political, language, or cultural background.
DEDICATED TO: H.R.M. Dream Rose (Dost thou know who groweth Her or where Her bed is?)
IN MEMORY OF: All Artists & Poets,
especially Those of the binational state of Palestine-Israe-l,
Arabia Felix-Saudi, & the Empire of Persia-Iran.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO: Jerzy N. Kosinski & Sa'adi of Shiraz & Khanum-e Annovi.
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