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Residual Trace: The Taleworthy Catastrophes of a Thrillseeking Child
by Tracy C. Mansfield
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Copyright © 2014 Tracy C. Mansfield
Fifth Edition, Seventh Revision (September, 2024); Smashwords Edition
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Attributions
Epigraph: August, John (screenplay), and Burton, Tim (Dir.) Big Fish. (2003) Columbia.
Story Part Epigraph: Mistler, Jean (1949) Benjamin Constant et Madame de Staël, Lettres à un Ami, Cent Onze Lettres Inédites à Claude Hochet. Bantam Classics: New York. (p. 10)
Theory Part Epigraph: Clarke, Arthur C. (1962) “Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Nerve,” in Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible. Harper & Row: New York. (p. 7)
Cookbook Part Epigraph: Bornstein, Ruth. (1976) Little Gorilla. Clarion Books: New York. (p. 1)
Unreal Part Epigraph: Carrol, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1872) Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Macmillan and Co.: London. (p. 10)
Cover design: “The Nymphaeum” by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1878), with Photoshop liberally applied by the author. The cover fonts are Desdemona and Zapfino. (The original photograph was taken by the author at the Haggin Musem.)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9904992-4-4
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