Being Buried An Essay Exploring the Darker Origins of the Author Love/Hate Re David Bain 9781479275656 Books
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Of this essay, author David Bain says "I wrote this essay several years ago. I wrote it almost exclusively for myself; I never sought, until now, to have it published. While I can’t say I never take a drink anymore, my relationship to alcohol has changed a great deal, thanks mostly to my family and a great deal of self-analysis - of which this essay was a big part. I’m making it available now in hopes it will help others on their paths toward self-discovery - and recovery."
David Bain is the author of GRAY LAKE A NOVEL OF CRIME AND SUPERNATURAL TERROR, the Will Castleton series, and several short story collections. He teaches writing at a community college in Indiana.
Being Buried An Essay Exploring the Darker Origins of the Author Love/Hate Re David Bain 9781479275656 Books
Inside each of us is the reason we have chosen the path we have. Sometimes the unveiling of that reason is a journey itself - a journey into discovering just who we are and what it is that might have shaped us, forged us, refined us along the way. Not everything that shaped us was pleasant: there were dark chapters in every life, unpleasant circumstances, difficult situations, oppressive events.Sometimes even those we love the most cause the darkest memories, stir the most haunting nightmares, wrap their twisted, gnarled fingers around our minds and will not let us sleep - will not let us rest - will not let us go.
David was only 12 years old when Opa asked for his help. A simple request. At least to the mind that had seen so much in those trenches on the battlefield: so much suffering; so many wounded; so much death. To the mind that wanted relief.
But to a 12 year old boy? Such a simple request was the stuff of nightmares. Nightmares that would haunt him the rest of his life. That would follow him through the pages of his stories. Through one empty bottle after another. Through one wasted day into the next.
When do you finally reach the point when you can weep, let go, and hear him whisper, "Alles gut, Davy, alles gut!"? When do you reach the point you can finally die to all the pain and the past, be reborn, and let someone dig you out to live again?
"Alles,gut", mein freund. You did it again!
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Being Buried An Essay Exploring the Darker Origins of the Author Love/Hate Re David Bain 9781479275656 Books Reviews
If it wasn't so inexpensive, I'd have returned this bizarre book.
I don't read many essays. None, really. There's no reason for it, I just don't. But if David Bain keeps writing essays like this, I could see that changing. Bain's essay BEING BURIED is a creative nonfiction essay, which is to say he takes a real event and writes it in such a way that it reads like prose, thereby better holding reader interest and creating a real sense of tension in the narrative. This particular essay centers around Bain's grandfather, an old-school German with a serious jones for beer.
I'm not going to spend my review-standard 1000 words rambling on about this essay. The essay itself isn't much longer than that and, honestly, the story Bain tells is succinct enough that a 1000-word review of the material would be overkill. Instead I'll get to the point and say this essay, BEING BURIED, is at once touching, thoughtful and, if I'm being honest, gave me the serious creeps.
The only other piece of nonfiction to ever give me that feeling was Whitley Strieber's COMMUNION. And now David Bain's BEING BURIED is added to that so very short list. I won't give away just what it was that did it, but I will say when Bain gets to the part about his drunken grandfather coming into his room in the middle of the night, stinking of beer and stale sweat, it was not what I thought, but was so much worse. The image Bain paints, the request his grandfather makes, that's chilling stuff, and I applaud Bain's writing, and this essay, for reminding me that, even at nearly 40 years old, there are still things out there that can do me in. Great job.
Inside each of us is the reason we have chosen the path we have. Sometimes the unveiling of that reason is a journey itself - a journey into discovering just who we are and what it is that might have shaped us, forged us, refined us along the way. Not everything that shaped us was pleasant there were dark chapters in every life, unpleasant circumstances, difficult situations, oppressive events.
Sometimes even those we love the most cause the darkest memories, stir the most haunting nightmares, wrap their twisted, gnarled fingers around our minds and will not let us sleep - will not let us rest - will not let us go.
David was only 12 years old when Opa asked for his help. A simple request. At least to the mind that had seen so much in those trenches on the battlefield so much suffering; so many wounded; so much death. To the mind that wanted relief.
But to a 12 year old boy? Such a simple request was the stuff of nightmares. Nightmares that would haunt him the rest of his life. That would follow him through the pages of his stories. Through one empty bottle after another. Through one wasted day into the next.
When do you finally reach the point when you can weep, let go, and hear him whisper, "Alles gut, Davy, alles gut!"? When do you reach the point you can finally die to all the pain and the past, be reborn, and let someone dig you out to live again?
"Alles,gut", mein freund. You did it again!
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