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Viola loves in the land of terror for the sake of our great-grandchildren. For them we explore the roots of supremacy: from where does it come; how does it thrive; what do we do? We tell the story of what our great-grandchildren crave, yet have never experienced: privacy. Viola’s romance culminated in her deathbed confession. Her dying words of March 1, 1919, stopped a new reign of terror before it could begin.

The Viola Loves in the Land of Terror novella series studies the roots of supremacism. Documented historical text, metaphysical fiction, and hundreds of full-page images create a personal, true, romantic account. ReVif publishes this work in conjunction with Élément Magique’s motion-picture series, Soul Credit, so that we may all, in our own way, displace THE CURSE. We integrate the French, English, and USA humanist visions of imaginative creativity and sustaining craft. Humanity’s responsible freedom traces our origins and future along four intersecting paths: Beauty, Wisdom, Adventure, and Love.

Viola Loves in the Land of Terror. Conjure Justice is the first in a series of twenty-two novellas presenting the life and times of Viola Estelle Parr, a young woman of Athens, Georgia. She died of a criminal abortion on March 1, 1919. The osteopath who did it, William Waters, performed the procedure at the behest of Viola’s lover. Her lover, a married man and social leader, was Dr. Maxwell Summerlin. Viola loved her boss, Maxie. Both William Waters and Maxwell Summerlin were convicted of homicide.

The judge who presided over the trial was Andrew J. Cobb, a former justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. In 1905, Justice Cobb established legal precedent for the Right to Privacy. The case was brought by a celebrated Austro-Hungarian fresco painter, Paolo Pavesich. When Viola was a child, Paolo and his family were Viola’s neighbors in Athens, Georgia. The right to privacy which Artist Paolo Pavesich and Justice Andrew Cobb created is the foundation of reproductive rights in the USA.

Maxwell Summerlin was the Eminent Commander of a regional secret militia. At that time, all of Georgia’s militias, both public and private, concerned themselves with the oppression of Afro-Americans. Slavery had been effectively re-engineered since 1896 through the institution of peonage. Afro-American men were kept from voting since 1903 through legislation integrated within sex-based, systemic terror. Terror campaigns lynched Afro-American men as sex criminals. In 1919, Euro-Americans feared the possibility of women’s suffrage, believing Afro-American women would dominate the polls unless a new form of terror could be implemented. Euro-American supremacists sought ways to terrorize Afro-American women as sex criminals who deserved extrajudicial death.

The trial of Viola’s killers was a test case for decriminalizing the intentional murder of women by abortion. Criminal abortion would become the new lynching. It would occur in private, avoiding federal scrutiny far more efficiently than public executions. Jai Voulu provides source documents supporting his historical research. Jai insists: facts prove little without the passion to transform data and information into living expectations. For this reason, all facts serve our fiction. Only imagination transforms human existence.

Viola Loves in the Land of Terror is written as ROMANCE, in the tradition of psychological romanticism exemplified by Hawthorne, Nerval, Cazotte, Malory, Kafka, Pynchon, Kundera...Because vision defines our society, Jai includes hundreds of images. Because imagination is the essence of reality, most pictures are figure drawings from Jai’s sketchbook. These drawings are all taken from life while Jai voyages, discovering why, how, what, and whom Viola loves in the land of terror.