title: False Starts: The Misadventures of Transformation
author:  Camille Leon 
description: Camille Leon is the Founder and Executive Director of The Holistic Chamber of Commerce and Coach/Co-creator of THE EXHILARATION EFFECT: Building the Courage to take Your Leap of Faith. She believes in a healthier and happier world through our choices. Finding solutions to todays challenges and making it easier to choose the best ones is her passion and her business. Available for speaking, events and coaching, she can be reached at 310-490-6862 or at Camille@HolisticChamberOfCommerce.com.
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  Emile Zola
  
  
    
    
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  # Emile Zola
  
  
  ### William Dean Howells
  
  
  
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  
  
  
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  In these times of electrical movement, the sort of construction in
  
  
  the moral world for which ages were once needed, takes place almost
  
  
  simultaneously with the event to be adjusted in history, and as true a
  
  
  perspective forms itself as any in the past. A few weeks after the
  
  
  death of a poet of such great epical imagination, such great ethical
  
  
  force, as Emile Zola, we may see him as clearly and judge him as
  
  