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CAVITATION REPORT 1 July 2024

Yes!!!

This morning I located a traditional printshop in Heraklion, Crete, two hours northwest from our apartment in Neapoli.

I drove our little 50cc motorscooter there on the rough back roads so as not to be run over by speeding trucks.

As I walk in the door, this woman senses my urgency. She drops everything to print and bind the 500 page manuscript.

There it is!

This woman does alchemy in her printshop, changing a wisp of an idea into a physical object!

Now Ann-Chloé, the publishing Wizard, can edit the text, and then lay out the pages for printing so too you can have one.

I am so excited for you to be as inspired as I am from these stories !!!

Love, Clinton

CAVITATION REPORT 15 July 2024

Yes again!

Here in Neapoli, Crete, Anne-Chloé Destremau, chief editor and spaceholder of Thoughtware Press is editing the Cavitation manuscript!

She has already broken her red pen (could be a small bit of rage involved, or hopefully outrage...) so now she uses her purple pen.

Me? I flit raround, shitting in my pants, afraid.

Afraid of what?

Afraid that I will need to add in bumbling mistakes, breakdowns, and liquid states as the characters struggle to figure out how things can work better.

Afraid that many of the characters are strong capable space-navigating researcher women on their journey. How can I - as a man - possibly speak their voices? What qualifies me to dare trying this?

Deep questions gurgle in the Swamps.

Some positive feedback arrives via responses from several people reviewing the manuscript for providing a written recommendation...

UPDATE: It is now 27 July 2024. Anne-Chloé has already edited 100 pages. 400 more to go...

I hate waiting!

Yeah, well... so what? It's waiting time.

CAVITATION REPORT 12 August 2024

We are digging through layer after layer of error correction. The errors that Word finds and that Google Docs finds are complementary. Which means, if you put a document through both editors, you find twice as many errors as if you only put the document through one of them. Cavitation has a quarter of a million words... leaving room for a huge number of potential errors. If the reader or writer is caught up in the story, the mind tends to ignore the little errors. And these are the kinds of stories that catch you up!

We are in Warsaw. The manuscript is edited and thrice error checked. Anne-Chloé created a stunningly beautiful cover. Preliminary readers have shared their book recommendations. As I write these words, Anne-Chloé sits across from me laying out the book for printing!

We plan to print some copies to make Cavitation available for Possibility Lab participants in Poland.

Then by 10 September 2024, Cavitation should be available on amazon.com/stores/Clinton-Callahan/author/B001JP7OPY, and soon after that, at bookshop.org/shop/possibilitymanagement.

Perhaps we can get some copies printed in New Zealand to avoid shipping costs.
In this case, they would be available through Tristan Girdwood, the new New Zealand branch of ThoughtwarePress!

CAVITATION BOOK REVIEW BY MARK TOGNOTTI

28 July 2024

Cavitation is in a genre of its own. It’s part highly-entertaining fictional drama, part visionary work of art, part erudite philosophical teaching tool, and part 'how to' instruction manual in the skills of emotional healing that is central to creating purposeful, adult community. I am wondering if it could be part something else, too, something harder to name... a causal energetic action, a spark of fire helping to ignite global transformation?

The most exciting part for me while reading Cavitation was at some point being overtaken by the surprising experience that I am not only reading a story about transformation, but actually experiencing transformation happening in me! I began feeling strange, effervescent sensations throughout my body. The sensation corresponded to the thought or the recognition - it had the feeling of reality - that a pleasant, energizing flow was somehow coursing directly from the book through the cells of my body, drawing me into its thrilling evolutionary current. How could this be happening?

The novel traces a dozen different storylines unfolding inparallel, and taking place in disparate places around the planet. Some of these include a decimated tribal village in Africa, a bombed-out urban neighborhood in the war-torn Middle east, CIA bunkers deep underground, a basement in Eugene, Oregon, even a magical gathering of Hollywood celebrities. As readers, we enter into and follow each storyline. We get to know characters living in widely different circumstances, fleshed out in compelling detail. Little-by-little, something analogous starts to happen in each different story. A new awareness begins dawning everywhere, new skills, new commitments, new ways of interacting emerge simultaneously. Gradually, these stories start to converge. It’s as if all of it is inspired and coordinated by a larger, evolutionary, planetary force.

It seems to me that Clinton Callahan writes all of this with clarity, such conviction and commitment, with so much playfulness and creativity, rage, sadness, love and desire, that what he writes simply begins to acquire the force of reality.

- Marc Tognotti
Founder of infinitypointcdfi.org

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