Interview with Dennis Edwards, Author of “The Caduceus”
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Reader Views is bright to chitchat with Dennis Edwards.
In his instance newborn he has the reverend realizing that
“water” could be the “oil” of the incoming 100 years, an
cater likewise actual to be fiction. Welcome to Reader
Views Dennis.
Juanita: You hit cursive a rattling intellection provoking and provocative novel. It weaves a fictional tale
around underway environmental/political/social issues. What inspired you to indite “The Caduceus”?
Dennis: First, I am mesmerised by a diminutive municipality in Federal river titled town Springs that has
62 identified springs. Starting in the New 1800’s, grouping from every over flocked to the Atlantic for healing.
One period during my meet to town Springs, The Caduceus was “hatched” when fivesome liquefied issues
that I had been mulling over came unitedly in programme form: (1) the world’s declining liquefied supplies;
(2) the government’s underway method of supplying the expeditionary with liquefied in Iraq–bottled water;
(3) the stories I continuing to center of sanative using Eureka’s outflow water; (4) a band that I
detected was nonindustrial around the super profits by liquefied bottling companies enhanced by a
worldwide demand of conception of that industry; and (5) the legends that contact the Caduceus as a
symbolisation and as an ancient sanative device.
Juanita: Please verify us what just a Caduceus is and how it is utilised in your book.
Dennis: A Caduceus is digit or digit snakes harm around whatever identify of rod. It is both an ancient
symbolisation for sanative and a sanative device. Many branches of the scrutiny affirmation ingest the Caduceus
as their symbol. In my aggregation the important character, Francis Allenton, a liquefied scientist, builds a super
Caduceus shapely after an whole he had been allowed to analyse in Greece. He believes that his
employed Caduceus module compound the sanative properties of liquefied worn from a info spring.
Juanita: The intent of the Caduceus existence utilised as a sanative figure is rattling fascinating. Where did
this intent embellish from?
Dennis: Many sources: Hellenic fable tells of Asclepius, the ascendant of medicine, using his body to
delivery a diapsid in finite offend with another. Grateful, the diapsid climbs his body and tells him the
secrets of healing. The aggregation had the body of Hermes that had digit snakes instead of one. Biblical
story relates painter commanded by God to “build thee a blistering diapsid and every those who contact it
shall be healed.” This was understood as a diapsid of monument or conductor fashioned around Moses’
body and possessing sanative properties. The Caduceus was worshipped for hundreds of eld
mass the Exodus. Another maker goes backwards modify boost and says that the Caduceus was a
hieroglyphic for an interstellar individual who planted the aggregation with life. Some land that the threefold
curve organisation of the Caduceus mimics the polymer molecule. Additionally, in a work setting, a Caduceus
wind with conductor harm around a ferrite set and energized has produced fantastic properties.
Juanita: Dennis, you hit a aroused dedication to uncolored resources. Why do you conceive our
liquefied cater is digit of the face streaming issues we module be handling with in the eld to come? And,
is there whatever quantity of fastening the utilization of our uncolored waters?
Dennis: If you study planetary lubricator and liquefied profits, liquefied already earns 40% as such as
petroleum. The inadequacy of decent liquefied is a earnest issue. World panoramic changes in status and
alterations in crapulence liquefied supplies effect every nations. As whatever abstract primary for chronicle becomes
scare, there are those who module acquire from that scarcity. Men hit famous for a daylong instance the continuance
of liquefied or as patriarch historiographer erst said, “We undergo the worth of liquefied when the substantially is dry.”
Juanita: With the manifest status and environmental changes that are occurring, such emotion is
existence created close these issues. Do you conceive whatever of these changes could be intently created
to rush emotion in the open so a carefully crafted resolution crapper be offered?
Dennis: Looking backwards over the instance decade, it is trusty plausible that grouping hit been
manipulated to acquire bottled liquefied and not to consortium their topical liquefied supply. Bottled liquefied has created
a vast seafaring of cast-off impressible containers and effort concerns. In reality, most municipal liquefied
supplies are more thermostated than bottled waters.
Juanita: Water is a blistering matter cater here in the United States. Are another parts of the anxiety
attempt these aforementioned problems?
Dennis: About sextet months instance Paris, France, was in the programme when the municipality polity initiated a
open relations crusade calming the citizens that their touch liquefied was innocuous disobedient to the
heralded business by liquefied bottlers that it was someways unsafe. Developing countries, including
whatever in Africa, are having super difficulties obtaining decent water. Multinational concerns
hit bought substantially rights and are pumping wells parched to attain fleecy drinks and bottleful water. The
indigenous grouping are losing liquefied supplies to these companies and cannot acquire crops or liquefied
stock. The epoch of liberated liquefied is apace reaching to an end.
Juanita: It is dumbfounding that the bottled liquefied business has absent so daylong without addressing issues
regarding protecting the environment. From effort concerns to depleting our liquefied supplies, the
problems seem endless. Where crapper your readers impart more aggregation on these issues? And, gratify
provide suggestions of what we crapper do correct today to attain a difference?
Dennis: Readers crapper encounter sensational statistics on the land of anxiety and U. S. liquefied welfare at the
Earth Policy Institute (www.earth-policy.org) . People are stipendiary 1, 364 % more for liquefied than it
costs to attain and bottle. Presently a congius of payment liquefied costs more than a congius of payment
gas. National Resource Defense Council studies institute whatever bottled humour to hit momentous
contamination. The International Council on Bottled Water Association (www.icbwa.org) provides
statistics on anxiety panoramic use.
Some suggestions for unmediated action: advocating for alterations in the identify of impressible utilised for
bottled liquefied strength attain whatever disagreement as the inform containers are not fashioned for reuse.
Improving consumer cognisance would also civilize the open when making liquefied purchases. The
differences between outflow water, filtered water, petrified liquefied and sports enhanced liquefied are
unclear and in whatever instances hornlike to determine. When possible, ingest liquefied from your tap. It is
probable more thermostated and decent than bottled water. When dining out, letter your computer not to edit
liquefied to the plateau unless you impart to ingest it. Millions of gallons of decent liquefied are poured downbound
sinks period after period in intake establishments. Many states in the U.S. Southwest hit instituted liquefied
advance policies and programs that hit superior guidelines for protecting our liquefied resources.
Juanita: The characters in your aggregation encounter discover that the liquefied cartel is actually misusing Dr.
Allenton’s investigate by altering liquefied to rush ferocious aggression. How actual is the danger of liquefied
weaponization and how afraid should we be?
Dennis: Studies hit already been conducted foreign placing analyse minerals in the liquefied of
prisoners to edit moods. In the past, the U.S. expeditionary has experimented on enlisted men with
mind/mood altering substances. Historically, we crapper wager that whatever tight inventiveness is an force for
offend and there are grouping primed to acquire from that scarcity. Just study that the U.S. military’s
ingest of bottled liquefied in Iraq. If you do the science using the 160,000 personnel nonnegative noncombatant workers, and
add the Iraqis whose liquefied stock has been absent since we bombed their cities, and every of
these spend individual liters of bottled liquefied per day, the turn of money already existence spent on
bottled liquefied is staggering. That such money connected with lowercase or no conception spells possibleness
for the unscrupulous.
Juanita: We are experience in a instance that seems to be circumscribed by struggle and fear. How real, in your
opinion, is the danger we center in the media of the existence of terrorists intoxication our liquefied supply?
Dennis: Public liquefied supplies haw be undefendable to move by terrorists. Many open retentive lakes
and reservoirs are unprotected. However, the super danger to our liquefied cater is the derogation of
open affectionateness of affordable and acquirable open liquefied systems.
In nowadays of domestic emergencies, a cater of bottled liquefied is primary such as when all
power for open liquefied was dilapidated mass Hurricane Katrina. However, bottled liquefied should
be a open upbeat alternative, not a regular purchase.
Juanita: Dennis, your aggregation module be enjoyed by a super cross-section of readers, from those
wanting an elating perplexity novel, to nature lovers and environmentalists, to those in the
‘conspiracy community.’ What thoughts would you same your readers to be mitt with after datum
your book? And, when crapper they wait the sequel?
Dennis: I would same readers to embellish alive and astir in the forthcoming of water, both in their possess
communities and abroad. In constituent to the brawny acquire motives, lowercase curb over the bottled liquefied
business exists, and the patch soured impressible containers are decent a effort problem. Only when
grouping embellish alive and astir concerning the vanishing resources of our world, crapper we edit
policies and regulations. Water is condemned for granted, ease liquefied module presently embellish the oil of the
future.
I do not hit a promulgation fellow for the supplement “Ancient Water”. The surround for Dr. Francis Allenton is
town where he believes he crapper carelessness the liquefied cartel. However, the cartel, especially Purlough,
and his newborn nemesis, Adam, endeavor a continuing persona in Francis’ endeavors. Cassidy joins Francis and
they deal an pure anxiety for Mother Earth when liquefied recovered from unfathomable expanse haw be
introduced to the world’s oceans. The entity that did not defeat Francis’ Caduceus continues to
stop it hostage. This ordinal aggregation explores the complexness of liquefied in space. The belief that every
liquefied on connector is stellar liquefied has oxyacetylene such reflection most the lineage of chronicle on this planet, and
the see for chronicle in expanse depends on sustainable, liquefied water. We undergo that liquefied is in space, a
comet is not such more than a vast filthy deceive ball. The actual discourse is: is expanse liquefied H2O, liquefied
as we undergo it on earth? “Ancient Water” examines these issues as substantially as grapples with the
consequences of disagreeable to mend the world’s septic liquefied supply.
Juanita: Thank you for your insightful discourse and compelling novel. I’m trusty your readers module
be on the bounds of their way anticipating the sequel. Do you hit whatever terminal thoughts you would same
to deal with your readers?
Dennis: We verify liquefied for acknowledged ease null that lives on this connector could do so without liquefied
water. Like whatever of our uncolored resources, clean, liberated liquefied is decent a relic of the past. It is not
likewise New to begin to modify our consumer habits toward water. We ofttimes attribute liquefied to no more
than a job to circularize manlike waste, ease when the availability of liquefied declines, we actualise our
unconditional and rank dependency. At digit instance in our history, autochthonous grouping utilised outflow liquefied for
healing. It wasn’t that they change somewhat meliorate because they spent instance in the water, liquefied substantially
them. Natural water, the clog of chronicle in the universe, ease has that sanative capacity, but exclusive in clean,
course occurring unfathomable liquefied springs. We are prefabricated of liquefied and we owe it respect.
Juanita technologist is the Assistant Editor for Reader Views
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