title: Present Past Past Present: A Personal Memoir
author:  Eugene Ionesco 
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: French
zlib_text: > **The Manifest**
  
  J. Anthony Torino
  
  **Copyright** © **2017 by J. Anthony Torino**
  
    
  
  Published by J. Anthony Torino
  
  Cover Illustration by J. Kent Holloway
  
  All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part
  without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may
  quote brief passages in a review; nor may any part of this book be reproduced,
  stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means,
  electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other, without the
  permission from the publishers.
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and
  incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a
  fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or
  actual events is purely coincidental.
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2017908524
  
  ISBN 978-0-692-89709-6 (Paperback)
  
  ISBN  978-0-692-90165-6 (EBK)
  
  > Dedication
  
  _To my wife,_
  
  _who inspires me every da