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    Justice of the Heart
    Justice of the Heart
    Justice of the Heart
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    Justice of the Heart

    By Raymond Crane

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    A young lawyer defies the conventions of the law club and struggles to defend the poorer, less well connected clients. He also falls in love with the prettiest girl in the law club. He has many cases including many in court, until one of his cases yields to him a sum of six million dollars.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaymond Crane
    Release dateJun 3, 2018
    ISBN9780463259313
    Justice of the Heart
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    Raymond Crane

    If you wish to review my two volume novel, Palma de Mallorca Mystique you should first contact me and ask my permission. If I approve of you I will invite you, unless you are impotent, sorry, I meant impudent. Thanx , Raymond Crane. Check Amazon Kindle - Booksie.com - Goodreads.com A broader sense of Romance? Let’s say most readers of novels would think of Romances as being like a typical Mills and Boon story about two people who fall in love, with some complications, and eventually live together happily ever after. Let’s say that most novels of whatever genre contain elements of such a basic scenario. We as readers or writers almost always expect a novel to have Romantic elements even if only as a secondary plot. Let’s say the plot of a basic love story could go like this – A meets B and they fall in love. B meets C and is seduced into leaving A. B and C don’t get along so when A re-attracts B, B returns to A and they live happily together for ever after. There would be little character development in a basic love story and almost no social comment. A basic love story may have elements of other genres such as crime, S/F, or history or adventure. For an extended love story we can see Jane Austin’s stories of Romance which show character studies and social comment as well as a complicated plot. If an author or reader were to look at any of my novellas the focus is on a simple plot line with some social comment. Sure a basic love relationship is central to these stories but there is little character development. To take a wider view of Romance one may look at that epic work, The Odyssey by Homer. Going on a long voyage in which many and various events happen to the main character can be called Epic Romance. There is no basic love relation going on throughout the novel, it is not like Mills and Boon stories at all. One could say that it is the first great lifestyle/adventure Romance because the main character loves his life, whatever happens. My French New Roman novella, - Devils’ Playground is more like a short Epic Romance. There is no basic love relationship but many and various events happen to the main character including much extended travelling. This novella is told in the first person with much interior monologue. It is so very different from all my other works that one may be excused if one thought it was written by another author. Taking my Opus Grande, two volume postmodern Romance novel, - Palma de Mallorca Mystique here we find exquisite and evocative descriptions of the environment and in-depth character studies, lot’s. This work allows for social comment and a great slice of cultural commentary – dialogue is predominant. The themes of love and romance are explored in depth. Some young writers write sex novels these days and call that Romance. Would you say that sexually themed stories are Romances, or only pornography? I would be delighted if anyone would comment on my points of view and perhaps offer some points of their own. Thanx - Raymond Crane My favourite books Imagine going into a Spanish second-hand shop where they did not value books highly. An old man of seventy who proclaims himself to be a follower of Karl Marx comes to serve. I say, do you have any English books, he says, no, they don’t sell, but he could get his hands on a big box of such by the next day. I go back and sort through the big box of books, there I find - An autobiography of J. D. Salinger Thus bad begins - by Javier Marias, a recent edition The complete Catherine series by ? A day in the country – a collection of short stories by Maupassant The novel and Society – a text book The Europeans by Henry James The story of Philosophy – by Bryan Magee How fiction works – by James Wood Studying the Novel – by Jeremy Hawthorn . . . and the old man bows graciously and says €5 Euros. – I’m in heaven! Thanx - Raymond Crane Raymond Crane, author, A note concerning my two volume novel, Palma de Mallorca Mystique - One may compare my writings with that of Jane Austin, after all we are both Romance writers. The comparison is short for as Jane Austin is a great apologist for the newly arrived middle-classes, as pictured in her portrayals of professional males, doctors, lawyers, and sea-men although the latter had to be Admirals to figure in her stories, I accept fiction writers, political researchers, film directors, and fashion designers as though they were just the latest thing, in every way respectable. Whereas Jane Austin would feel that many of her characters may not meet the mark of respectability, that is, as members of the nobility, my characters are as they are, take them or respect them, they are what they at first appear to be. I am after all writing in a new age, and despite the respect given to Jane Austin I demand just a little respect for portraying characters that are all of our current time. Thanx – Raymond Crane YA TWO VOLUME ROMANCE NOVEL – A PRIZE A BLOGSCAPE BY RAYMOND CRANE – AUTHOR A personal critique of Palma de Mallorca Mystique by the author – Raymond Crane. I would like to point out numerous writing styles which feature in my two volume Romance novel. I shall first list three writing styles provided for your enjoyment. The first, is the surreal element, explicated technically in Franz’s and Sebastian’s witnessing of a wild, fiesta, party, in Franz’s dormitory in the first volume. The event didn’t happen but the main characters felt that it did. That is... they imagined that the Andalusian waiters who shared his dorm actually were having a riotous party. In the second stylistic element worthy of mention is the farce or farcical incident when Franz encounters the fictitious and absurd Baron of Upper Slowdownia. This racy scene is told with an extreme sense of facility so that the reader would be highly amused and captivated by the recounting of the episode. The third stylistic element which stands out all too humorously is the meeting of Sebastian with Gretchen in the private study, where she pulls a gun on him. It is highly absurd and also highly melodramatic. The attitude of Gretchen, her demands, are very hyperbolic and his responses very antithetical, and very humorous. It is scenes such as these which lift the story out of the ordinary mode of a story, or rendition, and these elements give the reader such an amusing, enjoyable entertainment. THANX - Raymond Crane

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      Justice of the Heart - Raymond Crane

      Justice of the Heart

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      I reflected, ‘this is out of character,’ when I noticed that Jane Bower was paying unusual attentions to me. I have known Jane since Law School at Uni and she has always taken an opposite view to me in matters of philosophy, politics and the aim of the law.

      She was the most popular girl in Law School; she even attracted the attentions of Otis Blacker and his group of followers. Otis was the most establishment student in the school. It was understood that he would join his father’s Law firm, Blacker and Associates.

      Jane has been courted by a number of Otis’s group but she seems to be after Otis himself, though he apparently believes that she is beneath him in his social milieu.

      I remember Jane laughing at my thesis paper, ‘The Voluntary State and its Legal Infrastructure.’

      So much time worrying about mere mortals will get you nowhere, she had said.

      I left Law School with a good pass, whereas most of Otis’s group graduated with well paid-for distinctions which set them up for a future of protecting the rights and powers of corporate business. Otis was certain to become a contracts lawyer and never to see the inside of a court of law. Jane also wanted to become a contracts lawyer for the remuneration it offered and was looking for a position with an established legal contracts firm.

      I intended to argue cases for the less privileged and less fortunate members of our society. To this end I advertised not in the national press but in local newspapers for cases of common law. I wanted to defend those who could not usually afford professional legal representation and I wanted to retain my freedom. I didn’t want to be a government official but wanted to choose cases that would otherwise be lost because of inadequate legal protection. I wanted to argue for the poor, whose cases were nevertheless worthy. I believed whatever political system one lived in, capitalist, socialist, democratic or state capitalist, the ordinary person needed representation, and in providing this, I saw I had a role to play.

      Jane usually scoffed at my philanthropic view of law; the real business of law was, in her eyes, the protection of the business sector of society and this was where the future and great monetary rewards lay. We were poles apart, Jane and I, but as we both had to face the realities of the profession the years seemed to bring us closer together, circumstances casting us in a similar light, where love somehow seemed a possibility and our career paths met.

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      I shall outline several of my legal cases to give the reader some idea of how my career progressed from dealing with relatively minor cases to a position where Jane and even Otis could no longer ignore me. Over a number of years I built my practice where I felt a need, where justice required to be upheld and where the state found the accused such small fish that even the casual dabbler in common law would not consider it worth their while to plead their cases.

      My city being located in a country under the protection of the Queen of England and Her legal system I was required by tradition to wear the full costume; a wig, a gown and in colder weathers, an additional short cape. There was no stipulation as to what kind of tie I had to adorn myself with however, a tie was mandatory, along with the wig and gown in the courtroom.

      My first two cases were uncomplicated domestic violence cases, one of battery of his spouse by a husband, and another one of physical mistreatment of children by both parents. The first case I won, in defence of the woman, a divorce being arranged with regular maintenance payments and a large lump sum compensation payment by the violent husband who was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. I didn’t always agree that monetary payments could adequately compensate the victims; to keep the aggressor away from the victim was essential and restraining orders were necessary in many circumstances as an interim measure in common or family law.

      My second case was won by having the two child victims fostered by relatives. Also the two parents had to agree to a series of psychological training courses to learn to respect each other, in the first instance, and secondly to educate them to the effect that if they did not want children in the first place

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