A roller-coaster ride through a poetico-philosophic landscape tinged by otherworldly yearnings and fancies that are more often grounded in some degree of logic and taken to new heights of ideological insight that defy mere wilful pragmatism in their interpretation of life from an standpoint both otherworldly and metaphysical. In this excellent title by John O'Loughlin, the poetic fancies are given philosophical wings to fly towards heaven-knows what Beyond.