About

The origin of this book

Somehow (I know not how nor when), a set of rare artifacts were handed down to me. These are eight bifold brochures that feature the paper and fabric depictions of the eight immortals shown in this book. Originally, these characters are titled “immortals of chinese mythology.” The brochures were distributed by the Schering Corporation of Bloomfield New Jersey to promote the drug named Meticorten, a brand of prednisone introduced in 1955. The brochures are not dated and do not show a copyright. Schering merged with Plough in 1971.

I wrote these poems in 1985, or at least by the end of October 1986.

Links and shortcuts

In each poem the images expand in size when you touch or hover over them.

In any page, you can click on or touch links to jump around in this book.

• Each entry in the contents links to the poem.
• The title for a poem links back to the contents, highlighting the entry for the poem.
• Words in the headers and footers link to the index, the contents, a listing of books by the author, to this page, and to the previous and next poems in the book.

You may find the following keyboard equivalents to be convenient. Here I use the symbol ⌥ for the option key on Mac/OS or the alt key on Windows, ⇧ for the shift key, and ⏎ for the return (enter) key. Arrow keys are ◄ (left), ► (right), ▲ (up), and ▼ (down).

Keyboard shortcuts for navigating this book

Context	Keys	Jump to / Behavior
index	⌥ ◄	Books by Tom Sharp
	⌥ ▲	About Tom Sharp
	⌥ ►	about this book (this page)
	⌥ ▼	contents
	⇧ ⌥ ▼	contents
contents	⇧ ⌥ ▲	index
	⌥ ▼	select the next item in the contents
	⌥ ▲	select the previous item in the contents
	⌥ ►	open the selected page
	⌥ ⏎	open the selected page
poem	⇧ ⌥ ▲	contents
	⌥ ◄	contents
	⌥ ▲	open the previous page
	⌥ ▼	open the next page

The author

Tom Sharp, Ph.D., holds twenty patents and is a retired programmer, a member of Seldovia Village Tribe, and the author of numerous books.

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