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This story follows Mike Lingard, a photographer who descends into alcoholism and homelessness after his wife, Marian, dies from a heart attack induced by viewing a disturbing art exhibition titled “Faces of Premonition”. Mike is recused by Alex Davidson, a former psychologist seeking his own redemption, who encourages Mike to answer a cryptic newspaper advertisement seeking a travelling companion based solely on a photograph of their eyes. This leads Mike to Edna Richard’s a mysterious artist with a “mannequin like” physical presence intensely “living” eyes, forcing Mike to ...

The Ramayana stands as the "Adi Kavya" - the first poem - of the Indian tradition, a monumental Itihasa (narrative of past events) that has shaped the moral and cultural landscape of Asia for millennia. The title itself is a compound of Rama and ayana, signifying "Rama’s Journey." Yet, the name of our protagonist carries a profound semantic duality found within the layers of our oldest texts: while the Atharvaveda associates Rama with "dark-colored" or "black" (allied with ratri, the stillness of night), the Mahabharata celebrates the name as "pleasing, beautiful, or charming."