The Strange Case of Sir Eodor and She Who Must Be Obeyed Explored in New Book

"Once I started reading A Different Kind of Sentinel," states David Stewart of Stewart Publishing, "I couldn't put it down until I had finished it. You go where no one has ever dared," he tells the author, Sir E.J. Drury II. "And for that you are to be commended."

St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) November 29, 2008 -- As Rivendell Books prepares to release its latest book, A Different Kind of Sentinel, its author, Sir E.J. Drury II, takes memoir writing to a new level, where the experiences of the imaginary realm are just as real as those of the material world.

For the author slips so seamlessly from one world to the next, as if there were no distinction between the two. While standing in front of a mirror, one day, he sees an image of his soul, a woman "standing opposite" him in the mirror. Alarmed at first, he steps back from the mirror only to find himself "being inexorably drawn back into her world through the smile on her face." In the end, is he left standing in front of the mirror, "smiling at an image of himself dressed as a white knight."

And therein lies the whole story in a nutshell. For this remarkable story is as much about the author as it is about the soul and their eventual reunion. While he fears the white knight, she loves the White Knight "above all else." Where he longs to be free of his obsession with sex, she longs to be free of her imprisonment in nature, somewhere out there. "I am the way," she boldly proclaims when he finally admits he is lost. And though the two suffer the same agonizing pain of separation from each other, both seek the one person they are meant to become.

As a sailor then, in the US Navy circa 1967, does Sir E.J. set off, that spring, in search of She Who Must Be Obeyed if he is to overcome the beastly side of nature and reunite himself with soul. "Whatever you do," is he forewarned by a fellow shipmate, "don't let them rob you of the most precious gift you have, your humanity, for the wraiths will claw away at it until all that remains is the shadow of what was once you." And so must he, at all costs, resist the temptation of his fathers before him, "to live out the visions of others rather than the one with which he had been entrusted at birth," a vision that eventually pits him against the Navy.

Loaded with many insights into the workings of the soul and the dark side of nature, the book is sure to please the palate of those intrepid souls who venture to open its pages in search of what they know not. Having gone where no book has ever dared, this starkly honest book is truly "a work of art of indescribable beauty."

A Different Kind of Sentinel by Sir E.J. Drury II. Second edition, revised. 6 x 9, 288 pages, including index. ISBN 978-0-9797023-1-0. $24.95. Preorder at Amazon.com. See our media room for a 300 dpi TIFF of the cover.

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