The Accidental Aphorist - Cousineau, Phil

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Résumé :
The Accidental Aphorist is comprised of hundreds of reflections and aphorisms, maxims, pensees, fulminations and regrets, amusements, which have been gleaned from almost forty years of the author's notebooks. The far-ranging themes include the writing life, creativity, love, death, travel, art, soul, mythology and legend, movies, politics, mentorship, and sports. These coruscating passages are the sparks and threads that have led Phil Cousineau to write over 40 books, more than 25 documentary scripts, two dozen televsion scripts, and have inspired hundreds of his popular writing workshops and retreats. Writing with the same admixture of philosophical inquiry, aesthetic curiosity, wacky word-play, quick-witted word portrait, and irreverent humor that is threaded through all of his work, Phil Cousineau has created a modern chrestomathy that reflects his dual passion for learning and teaching. The Accidental Aphorist: A Curiosity Cabinet of Aphorisms, Maxims, Epigrams, Pochades and Pens?es, Gnomic Sayings, Laconics, Notebook Jottings, Back Thoughts, and Afterthoughts, is meant to stoke and provoke, jolt and cajole the idling imagination.

Biographie:
PHIL COUSINEAU is a freelance writer, documentary filmmaker, independent scholar, creativity consultant, mythologist, and leader of cultural tours to sacred sites all over the globe. He has published over 40 books, including several best-sellers such as The Hero's Journey: The Life and Work of Joseph Campbell, The Art of Pilgrimage, Burning the Midnight Oil. The Book of Roads, The Accidental Aphorist, and The Lost Notebooks of Sisyphus. Cousineau has also written or co-written over twenty-five award-winning documentary films, including the Oscar-nominated Forever Activists: Stories from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and the landmark The Peyote Road: Ancient Religion in Contemporary Crisis. Since 2009 he has served as host and cowriter of Global Spirit, airing on PBS and LINK-TV. For decades, Cousineau has worked as a story consultant on myth in the movies for Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm, and Pixar Animation Studios. Currently, he lives with his wife Jo and son Jack on Telegraph Hill, in North Beach, San Francisco.