Two ‘T’s’ and a ‘D.’ Or, Copulation in The New World Order.

Tongue-in-cheek and hopefully amusing enough to bring a smile to your face.

I have been giving some thought again to the practice of some writers in giving away their work as a means of enticing that magical breed of people called ‘readers,’ to pay a financial cost for their subsequent work.

Having accepted this practise to be widespread, I have moved on from, but using, that strategy into another realm of life. Somewhere, perhaps, it could be beneficial to the coming generations of not only readers, but the whole world population. Copulation!

Instead of marriage or, come to that, a living together arrangement, why not a ‘suck it and see’ philosophy.

Here’s my plan.

You, I don’t mean you personally but I’m just using that term loosely, see someone who you, again not personal, want as a partner, and of course it goes without saying they feel the same way about you, so you ‘try’ each other out. We must set a time limit for this, let’s say one month.

During that flirting period, sex and all forms of intimacies must be entered into vigorously with no regard to safety, apart from obvious health issues. This of course is parallel to that first seductive free offer by the crafty writer. However, this first experience, in both cases, might be the only good bit. So caution should be advocated and a somewhat sceptical attitude adopted.

If one finds that part of the budding relationship is in any way dull and predictable, cooking for each other should be the next step. A good fillet steak or something along that line. The second enticement, or freebie. Are you following me? I do hope so.

Washing, ironing and domestic chores could be thrown into the mix by one partner, as a way of special appeal, if things are wavering slightly. Similar, you see, to a third seductive freebie, given by that cunning writer.

Now we arrive at the crunch.

With the writer’s approach of freebies carrying no value, there is no monetary refund the reader is entitled to. If not fully satisfied by what they have experienced, the only thing he, or she, can do is not pay for any future work from the person. They can, and in all probability, simply move on to the next free offer from someone new. Shameful, but such is life in all its variety, taste and capriciousness.

I would not wish to encourage such promiscuous and irresponsible behaviour in any form, in my proposed future human togetherness.

With my proposal, for the next new World Order, which I have named the two T’s and a D: Taste, Try and Discard, there will be an initial non-returnable deposit. Because of this, I hope people will place a value on the interrelationship on which this new World will be based, and have great principles and self-esteem in seeing the association through to an orderly conclusion.

About Daniel Kemp

Daniel Kemp is a seventy-four-year-old member of The Society of Authors. He is also a bestselling writer. He writes stories that appeal to those who like challenging themselves to solve mysteries that are set out before their eyes. His introduction to the world of espionage and mystery happened at an early age when his father was employed by the War Office in Whitehall, London, at the end of WWII. However, it wasn’t until after his father died that he showed any interest in anything other than himself! On leaving academia he took on many roles in his working life: a London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed London taxi driver, but never did he plan to become a writer. Nevertheless, after a road traffic incident left him suffering from PTSD and effectively—out of paid work for four years, he wrote and self-published his first novel —The Desolate Garden. Within three months of publication, that book was under a paid option to become a $30 million film. The option lasted for six years until distribution became an insurmountable problem for the production company. All ten of his novels are now published by Next Chapter Publishing Company which has added an edition titled The Heirs And Descendants Collection, which holds all four books of that series, alongside an edition titled The Lies And Consequences Collection which contains all four volumes of that series. He is the recipient of rave reviews from a prestigious Manhattan publication and described as—the new Graham Green—by a highly placed executive of Waterstones Books, for whom he did a countrywide tour of book signing events. He has also appeared on 'live' television in the UK publicising his first novel. He likes to write quotes and it's on Goodreads where you can find them--- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/list/72612151 An example of these quotes opens his novel--Once I Was A Soldier:--There is no morality to be found in evil. But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules of morality. Less

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