Every journey leaves a trace. Those traces return as echoes — fragments of recognition, insight, and companionship from readers. Readers who have walked the Road in their own way.
"With appreciation for the spirit of Anton Ego’s reflections on criticism.
Critics often stand at a comfortable distance. We comment, we assess, we pass judgement — all while taking very little personal risk compared to those who create.
It is easy, even tempting, to dwell on what is lacking. Negative commentary is quick to write and strangely satisfying to read. Yet if we are honest, most creative work — even the flawed, the uneven, the ordinary — carries more heart and effort than the criticism aimed at it.
But there are rare moments when a critic steps beyond the familiar and encounters something genuinely new. New work, new voices, new ways of seeing. And the new is vulnerable; it needs advocates, not just observers.
Reading this diptych unsettled my assumptions about what a life’s journey can look like. “Challenged” is too small a word.
Anyone can put words on a page. But not everyone creates something that resonates — something that feels both personal and universal. Great art can emerge from unexpected places.
These books ask to be read slowly — to let the journey unfold at its own pace, to sit with each moment, each insight, each recognition of our own paths and companions.
Then, read them again. More deliberately this time, like a slow, mindful movement. Mark the passages that speak directly to you.
On a third reading, return only to those markings. You may find that what you’ve highlighted forms a kind of private book — your own layers, your own journey, intersecting with Noone and Everyone at once.
And now I return to my own road, patient for what lies ahead, but eager for more."
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“An excellent read, it catches the zeitgeist of the times.”
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“I thoroughly enjoyed it. You either have a vivid imagination or are slightly mad — both probably prerequisites for successful creative writing.”
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“An enjoyable, gentle, well‑written mystical story. The writing brings the mysterious coast of Cornwall vividly to life, and the journey of the two friends is warm, absorbing and beautifully told. I read it in one sitting.”
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"Both books are well written and amusing in parts - books about friendship. Recommended to anyone who ever wonders about life and what will happen on their journey through it.”
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“An interesting, entertaining, thoughtful and clever follow up to the first book The Road to Now Here. It goes into much more detail over the author's health problems, showing that the thread of life in each of us is very thin. Life is chance - of meetings, decisions - and on your journey through life you never know what will happen to you and how you will deal with it. The story is a journey of two old friends who meet (not by chance) on a train and share experiences of the places visited and their meanings. The car they travel in is as much a character as the two men.”
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