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.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
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
Egoism is the identification, as it were, of the power of the Seer (Purusa) with that of the instrument of seeing [body-mind]. In this sutra Patanjali explains egoism. The ego is the reflection of the true Self on the mind. The two appear to be the same, but one is the original, the other a reflected duplicate. … Continue reading I and i
Universe of Dahee 