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Alan Conrad
Are there any people more misunderstood than
those who are solitary? When we have nothing to
say, people think we're indifferent. If we don't react
to verbal abuse, they think we're timid. If we don't
respond to the opposite sex in the customary
fashion, they tell one another that we're gay. If we
don't brag and boast, or do anything to promote
ourselves, they think we have no confidence. If we
show no emotion, they assume we have none.
- The Birdcatcher
those who are solitary? When we have nothing to
say, people think we're indifferent. If we don't react
to verbal abuse, they think we're timid. If we don't
respond to the opposite sex in the customary
fashion, they tell one another that we're gay. If we
don't brag and boast, or do anything to promote
ourselves, they think we have no confidence. If we
show no emotion, they assume we have none.
- The Birdcatcher
This is the website of Alan Conrad, author of The Birdcatcher, a novel
intended to be a declaration of independence for shy people.
To anyone hoping to learn something about me, I apologize. I'm one of
those who don't reveal much of themselves. As Christopher Stone says
in The Birdcatcher, we're like deer in a forest, happiest and most confident
when we're least seen.
Should you read The Birdcatcher? Well, it's not a book for everyone. I
wrote it mostly for those of you who are shy and/or solitary by nature - for
the introverted, the social phobic, the love-shy, HSPs, and those with
autism, Asperger's Syndrome, etc. - but it isn't just about shyness.
It's about the entire world. It's about our relationship to wild places and
other species – a natural view of the natural world – and it's about the
bizarre nature of an unnatural world controlled by an unnatural god -
money. It's about being burnt out, but still working because you need
money, and it's about falling in love when you were determined to never
fall in love again.
It's a search for reality in an unreal world, a search for solutions where
there appear to be none. And it's about where we're all headed in this
rushing current of change we're caught in at the beginning of the 21st
century.
So if you are one of those few who are interested in everything, someone
who wants to know the whole world, The Birdcatcher is a book for you.
The North American publishing industry has decided that you should not
read it, but you can now download the book in PDF form free from this
page or from 'Buy The Birdcatcher'.
intended to be a declaration of independence for shy people.
To anyone hoping to learn something about me, I apologize. I'm one of
those who don't reveal much of themselves. As Christopher Stone says
in The Birdcatcher, we're like deer in a forest, happiest and most confident
when we're least seen.
Should you read The Birdcatcher? Well, it's not a book for everyone. I
wrote it mostly for those of you who are shy and/or solitary by nature - for
the introverted, the social phobic, the love-shy, HSPs, and those with
autism, Asperger's Syndrome, etc. - but it isn't just about shyness.
It's about the entire world. It's about our relationship to wild places and
other species – a natural view of the natural world – and it's about the
bizarre nature of an unnatural world controlled by an unnatural god -
money. It's about being burnt out, but still working because you need
money, and it's about falling in love when you were determined to never
fall in love again.
It's a search for reality in an unreal world, a search for solutions where
there appear to be none. And it's about where we're all headed in this
rushing current of change we're caught in at the beginning of the 21st
century.
So if you are one of those few who are interested in everything, someone
who wants to know the whole world, The Birdcatcher is a book for you.
The North American publishing industry has decided that you should not
read it, but you can now download the book in PDF form free from this
page or from 'Buy The Birdcatcher'.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Northern Lake - Alan Conrad
White Tailed Deer - courtesy of the Pennsylvania Game Commission - Joe Kosack/PGC Photo - www.pgc.state.us
Northern Lake - Alan Conrad
White Tailed Deer - courtesy of the Pennsylvania Game Commission - Joe Kosack/PGC Photo - www.pgc.state.us