Am Volume 5

Book excerpt: This AM Volume 5 is largely diary.However the person that is speaking, although I wrote the words-that person is AM, not me, as I am now!The person on the cover is me, Simon Plant, I am not AM!Who is AM?Its not me, but "I" wrote the words.The mystery deepens.These words were written in the 80's as a way of coping with mental illness.The sentiments expressed in these lines I don't really identify with anymore because, after I became a Catholic in 1986, AM was laid to rest i.e.I did no more work on the novel.The manuscript was forgotten by me for 20 years, to be quite frank I thought it was probably nonsense anyway.However I resolved to publish it as a duty to myself, thinking why do all that work and then leave it in a draw?And also these words may help someone.(I hope so)The words when printed do not have my voice anymore they are like the word, as expressed in the Bible, that does not come down from heaven without doing the will of the Father.