It was not exasperation…. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them. Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (1953) Werewolves, the mystical, savage beasts of the night who people are taught to fear under the glow …
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince The time we spend on this earth is finite, limited, claustrophobic and constricted spite modern society claiming freedom is what we are born with, and that we can use this freedom to do …
Show that living holds worth enough to fight for! Seneschal, “Final Judgment” – Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen On my down time I replayed the cult classic Capcom game Dragon’s Dogma, the high fantasy, dark world classic from 2011 which I have vivid memories of when downloading the demo to repeatedly play the tutorial, kill the …
“In war, not everyone is a soldier.” Tagline, This War of Mine In a brutal winter night forecast by the clunky FM radio, I scavenge for the fourth night in a row, feeling less like a ninja and more of a rat trying to hide in dirt. The freezing wind rips through my already tattered …
The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself …
Having recently finished George Kay’s caper Netflix series Lupin, I was blown away at the intricate adaptation (and expansion) of Maurice LeBlanc’s adamant gentleman burgler, Arsene Lupin. Equally as amazing was Omar Sy’s magnetic, multidimensional character Assane Diop comprised of both heart and fine style. That said, the series has the right balance of humor, …
Reading is a basic literacy skill, yet agonizing to conjure concentration for it. It is difficult if for no other reason than the text existing in the past, with references and signposts unknown to you and therefore opaque and complex. There is no guarantee we will understand the author’s intend either, let alone the deeper …