This substantive collection of revised and reformatted weblogs by author John O'Loughlin was taken from a variety of sites, though particularly his work at SearchWarp.com, where he had written material of a philosophical nature that actually post-dates, by several months, the previous collection published in 'Beyond Truth and Illusion' (2007-8). Therefore one would have to regard this title as containing material which in most instances either goes beyond what was achieved before or adds new subjects or, at any rate, a fresh approach to a variety of subjects that may not have been dealt with in quiet such a systematic or well-nigh definitive manner previously, not least with regard to the relationship of literature, in its four main branches, to what the author has called 'the intercardinal axial compass', as customarily defined by him in terms of crossed diagonals embracing both upper- and lower-order, or noumenal and phenomenal, contexts.