p. 31 I SLEPT LATE and spent the tail of the morning reading over my own notes on Palace etiquette and the observations on Gethenian psychology and manners made by my predecessors, the Investigators. I didn’t take in what I read, which didn’t matter since I knew it by heart and was reading merely to … Continue reading The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
P.22 “That would be no good,” said the wizard, “not without a mighty Warrior, even a Hero. I tried to find one; but warriors are busy fighting one another in distant lands, and in this neighbourhood heroes are scarce, or simply not to be found. Swords in these parts are mostly blunt, and axes are … Continue reading The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again – J.R.R. Tolkien
"But ah, the end, the end of my emprise!" "The bitter ire, the wrathful woe Of Hera, queen of heaven—-" "And bid you hoard my words, inscribing them On memory's tablets." "A shrine is stronger than a tower to save, A shield that none may cleave." "I cannot aid you without risk … Continue reading The Suppliant Maidens – Aeschylus
P.14 And as soon as the flush of dawn appeared in the heavens, they boarded the ship and launched her. Apollo sent them a favoring breeze, and they raised the mast, and they hoisted the white sail aloft, and it bellied out with the wind, and on either side of the ship's prow, the … Continue reading Iliad – Homer
p.11 To sense the universe at all scales, from the vast distances to the stars down to the unimaginably small distances within the atomic nucleus, requires that we expand our senses by the use of instruments. Telescopes enable us to look outwards and microscopes reveal what things are like at small distances. To look inside … Continue reading The Atoms from a long-dead Supernova are what make you and me today
People have intuition, a hunch. And the author delicately planted many seeds where Kitty reckons where her future lies and I found it amusing how things unraveled exactly how she subconsciously expected. Despite my hope of her conquering her way to being fulfilled with her purpose, she didn't achieve great success with her writing and … Continue reading Book Review: The Unkillable Kitty O’Kane
Photo by Xaotherion p.2 An atom is the smallest piece of an element that can exist and still be recognized as that element. Nearly all of these elements, such as the oxygen that you breathe and the carbon in your skin, were made in stars about 5 billion years ago, at around the time … Continue reading December 27; Powerful magnetic forces in our body
The Storyteller's Secret: A Novel by Sejal Badani “Permit me to be a vessel for the tales that are in your keeping. Entrust them to me, and I promise never again to dishonor them.” Again I unknowingly picked another book with a female character who writes. I enjoyed the reading and was immersed in the … Continue reading Book Review: The Storyteller’s Secret: A Novel by Sejal Badani
MORNING READ We are made of atoms. With each breath you inhale a million billion billion atoms of oxygen, which gives some idea of how small each one is. All of them, together with the carbon atoms in your skin, and indeed everything else on Earth, were cooked in a star some 5 billion … Continue reading We are made of atoms
MORNING READ Just as the naturally pure crystal assumes shapes and colors of objects placed near it, so the yogi's mind, with its totally weakened modifications, becomes clear and balanced and attains the state devoid of differentiation between knower, knowable, and knowledge. This culmination of meditation is samadhi. "The mind of the Yogi with its totally … Continue reading December 4: radical acceptance
Universe of Dahee 