“Time ….” Poseidon shook his head. “You mortals! You’re bound to it and keep forgetting it is only an illusion.” (Page 305) “Man was made of flesh and bone on purpose! Time is his prison but also his best friend. He cannot make sense of his feelings, his accomplishments or his losses without it.” (Page […]
I could see his face better now, and the cruel strength of it made me shrink back – the great dark eyes under knitted brows, the long straight nose, the broad bonelike cheeks. His mouth, I saw now, was closed in a hard smile, ruby and curving under his wiry, dark mustache. At one corner […]
Its birth tore it apart in a blistering furnace. In the aftermath, meteors, cosmic rays and the light of distant stars have marked its surface. The Mighty Jupiter and Saturn could have easily made it one of their own, Could have easily wrapped it asunder and its magnificence we would have never known. Our world […]
I think that it’s been too long since I last spoke of Gackt’s songs. The winner for today is one I discovered a couple of months ago, Sakura Chiru. I had no idea that there’s also an English version sung by Yohio, so I have to thank Ana Maria for telling me about it. Both […]
Today I want to speak about a song I discovered recently, A Monster Like Me. It is sung by Kjetil Mørland and Debrah Scarlett, the ones who represented Norway in Eurovision this year. To be honest, I was hoping they would win. It is, without a doubt, a beautiful song. The sound, the lyrics, the […]
J. R. R. Tolkien – the Age of Myths… and modern fantasies (Part 2 – of spiritual things) Welcome back! In the first part I tried to explain the whole allegory versus imaginary history project. Now let me expand on the whole symbolic / mythical / spiritual level of the story. ~*~ Here we reach […]
J. R. R. Tolkien – the Age of Myths… and modern fantasies (Part 1 – an imaginary history of the world) Having recently lost myself in The Hobbit lore yet again, due to the final movie release this winter, I have decided to revisit J. R. R. Tolkien’s main works – The Lord of the […]
A while ago I wrote an article about Canadian youtuber Matthew Santoro and I mentioned the fact that I found his channel via Alltime10s. Now I’m going to give a “shout out” to those brilliant Brits, who made me learn so many things regarding any topic you can think about: history, conspiracy, science, politics, music, […]
Ethan McQuincy-Popescu had just about everything a young man could want: brains, good-looks, confidence and the woman he loved. He was also determined to bury everything that stood in his way. In order to do so, he comes up with what seems to be a flawless plan. But everything takes a turn for the worse […]