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Although the Demontange Saga is fiction, St. Lucia is a real place with a wonderful story of its own. We are psychotherapists with an intimate knowledge of psychological processes and motivations. The columns in this section provide insight into the settings, culture and characters in our works as well as perceptions about the writing process... We want to share this material and our perceptions with other authors but believe that many of our readers will find these columns of interest as well.
Recently we took back all our rights to A Dream Across Time and are now self publishing the Demontagne Saga. It is very gratifying to have the entire publishing process under our control.
If you would like to see what we have been up to and to see some of what we are dealing with as we move to self publish, go to our blog at http://letmedigress.blogspot.com. We want it to be interactive so join in. The columns from the Author to Author section will also appear in the blog.
At the end of the latest column, you'll find clicks for past columns.
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Andre Demontagne
Andre. You remember him. He's that great guy who's a little clueless about women.
What is he really all about?
One form of the cliche is that, "You can take the boy out of the island but you can't take the island out of the boy." Andre stands with his two feet firmly planted in different worlds. There's more to this stance than meets the eye.
It's not unusual for children in a family to be picked out for very different roles. His brother, Emile, went abroad for his agronomy studies and was chosen to return to tend the family holdings on St. Lucia in conjunction with his father, Auguste. Andre, in contrast, was chosen by his matriarch mother, Clarisse, to be the child who sought his fortune and the expansion of the family's worth in the larger world.
Clarisse chose well because Andre has the brains and the personality to succeed in the world at large. So, he was sent abroad for an education where he chose finance as his career which would serve his goals in venture capital endeavors. Clarisse directed him toward a mission to develop the family's future but Andre had his own mission as well which was to aid his island people in developing their future.
Children of the Caribbean islands are often sent abroad because opportunities are limited in these small island republics. But almost invariably they later return home because their roots are deep in the islands.
Andre's success depended not just on his brains and talent but his personality. Andre is one of those people who sets a goal and then follows it through with a well planned system. The problem for men like Andre is that they may find success but not all parts of the plan mesh with reality. Andre saw bright, beautiful Taylor as the perfect wife with whom he could make a family and build a future on St. Lucia but Taylor saw her future differently. Fortunately for both of them, Taylor saw herself clearly and, while she loved him, she did not see herself fitting into island life. Certainly not when she was lying in a sand pit in the middle of the night.
A successful marriage is often built on having things in common. But marriage also depends upon having complementary and supplementary views and orientations. Then the whole truly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Andre needed a partner who could address the realities of his world and who would share his dream for his island country.
Partnership for Andre very much included fidelity. He sought fidelity in his love relationship and was faithful to the missions for his family and his people. He took risks and pursued his dreams, finding his way to his goals in ways he could not have suspected.
How fortunate for Andre to find just the right woman to share his dreams!
Past Columns
Column 1 - St. Lucia
Column 2 - Jamie Elliott
Column 3 - Andre Demontagne
Column 4 - Paul and Danielle
Column 5 - Marcus Deroche
Column 6 - Bertille Deroche
Column 7 - What It's Like Living in the Tropics, Part 1
Column 8 - What It's Like Living in the Tropics, Part 2
Column 9 - Taylor, Clarisse and Barbara
Column 10 - How Does Our Writing Partnership Work?
Column 11 - Goal, Motivation, Conflict and Creativity
Column 12 - Family Life is a Saga
Column 13 - Toward A Circle of Dreams; I don't believe in ghosts.
Column 14 - A Book Walked in the Door
Column 15 - Every Woman Knows This Story
Column 16 - The Bridge
Column 17 - Why the Mystical Element in A Dream Across Time?
Column 18 - Gaia and myth in the Demontagne Saga
Column 19 - Carl Jung, Mythology and the Demontagne Saga
Column 20 - Carl Jung's Concepts in the Demontagne Saga
Column 21 - Martinique
Column 22 – Janine-Yvette Demontange (Yvie)
Column 23 – Anne-Clarisse Demontagne (Lissa)
Column 24 - Philippe Diamant Demontagne (Philippe)
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