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Tony Antonelli develops a strong and immediate antagonism to a newcomer who arrives at his work place. Without provocation he attacks the man but is held back by fellow workers.
Seeking to understand the cause of his actions, he follows a baffling
memory, first physically and then internally, chasing the shadows of memory until he reaches a medieval town in central Italy.
On the steps of an ancient Duomo, he survives a traumatic experience which helps him comprehend his actions. When he returns home, a surprise occurrence is waiting.
An original and creative exploration of one of the many things we know so little about.
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Tony, an architect-engineer, is suddenly and inexplicably overwhelmed with antipathy for a total stranger. He attacks the man. Without the intervention of Tony's co-workers, the man would have died.
Tony is badly shaken by his actions. He lacks even a hint of an idea that might explain it. He knows nothing of himself that could possibly account for the sudden surging rage, the overpowering urge to destroy.
He is certain of only one thing. He must discover what triggered his actions else face a grim, unpredictable future. No one can help. The answer lies within himself. And he must find it. Alone.
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While riding a train from Rome to Florence, I was gazing up at one of those Medieval hill towns when the strangest feeling disturbed my equanimity. It was as though an ancient mystery lingered through the centuries until it surfaced in my mind.
In August in the Mind, which I wrote after this experience, architect/engineer Tony Antonelli develops a strong antagonism to a stranger who appears at his work place, and before that had appeared in unsettled dreams... Without apparent provocation, he attacks the man.
Seeking to find the cause for his behavior, Tony, first internally and then physically, chases the shadow of memory until he arrives at a walled-in hill town in central Italy. There in Montepulciano, on the steps of an a Medieval Duomo, he survives a traumatic experience which helps him comprehend his actions.
Nick Taddeo Pasadena, California
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It was while riding north on a train through Italy that Nick became fascinated with the castles perched on mountain tops such as the one shown here. It was that trip and the feelings that emerged from such images, that triggered his book, August of the Mind. -- Bob

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