{"id":5815,"date":"2008-11-26T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2012-09-27T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T18:49:39","slug":"launching-splendorquestcom-love-among-the-unfallen-at-every-wavelength-of-heavens-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5815\/launching-splendorquestcom-love-among-the-unfallen-at-every-wavelength-of-heavens-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Launching SplendorQuest.com: Love among The Unfallen<\/em> at every wavelength of heaven’s light"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the official launch of SplendorQuest.com<\/a>, the official first post. I’m cross-posting it at BloodhoundBlog<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n

Fair warning: This post is comprised of an extract from my novel, The Unfallen.<\/em><\/a> After the “more” tag, you will be exposed to romantic fiction involving sexually playful adults engaged in actual life-like grown-up encounters. If you’re not comfortable with that kind of thing, skip ahead now. The nets are awash in content, after all, and almost none of it is about grown-ups. This post is nothing but a tiny glob of glowing phosphor on the vast oceans of information. Feel free to swim away with my blessings.<\/p>\n

But: If you do<\/em> want to catch a glimpse of actual grown-ups in action, I might have what you need. The splendor that is the grail of SplendorQuest.com is a state of mind, a state of being, a mental fugue state where being and awareness of being and worship of and delight in being all become the same thing. The fiction I write — or the best of the fiction I write — is about people who live — and who know enough to love — that splendor. The extract shown below is a snapshot of those kind of people at their best.<\/p>\n

You may want to read things into this text, and, if you do, you will be wildly incorrect, but there’s nothing I can do about that. All I can do is be what I am, and that’s why I want to start SplendorQuest.com with this text in particular. This is a work of large ambition: I wanted to rescue romance from the Romance genre as a worthy subject of literature, and I wanted to rescue sex from smut. But more than both of those, I wanted — I want, continuously — to rescue the ideas of reverence and worship and rejoicing and adoration and exaltation from the grave, from empty pie-in-the-sky promises. I know that the ideas I treasure are real because I live them in my own life, in my very best moments. There will doubtless be many more grand statements of what splendor Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the official launch of SplendorQuest.com, the official first post. I’m cross-posting it at BloodhoundBlog, as well. Fair warning: This post is comprised of an extract from my novel, The Unfallen. After the “more” tag, you will be exposed to romantic fiction involving sexually playful adults engaged in actual life-like grown-up encounters. If you’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,212,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5793,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5793\/my-bloodhoundblog-wish-list-as-we-embark-on-the-splendorquest\/","url_meta":{"origin":5815,"position":0},"title":"My BloodhoundBlog wish list as we embark on the SplendorQuest","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We're going to fire up SplendorQuest.com full-bore this week. 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