Month: January 2020
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Actantial Relationships
Narrativium is a term coined by the famous author, Terry Pratchett, to describe the substance that makes up stories. According to him, Narrativium is the element that allows a story to exist, and it is present in every story ever told. Within this concept, actantial relationships have been developed as a tool for analyzing and…
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Music and Time
We start the wrong way round: thinking, by learning what we are not, to know what we as individuals are: whereas the whole of human consciousness contains not a tithe of what is, and therefore it is hopeless to proceed by a method of elimination, and thinking by discovering the motion life has made, to…
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We’re All Mark Hamill
“We are all Mark Hamill” is a statement that goes beyond a mere reference to the acclaimed actor who played the role of Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” trilogy. Instead, it speaks to a larger concept of interconnectedness, empathy, and the capacity for self-transformation that lies within all of us. At the heart…
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Weird Tales and Amazing Stories
The 20’s in fiction is an elemental soup, open source of tropes made available, redistributed and modified. That means figurative language, words, phrases, images, recurring devices, recurring motifs and clichés shuffled around for artistic effect. Most of the tropes used for world building in sci-if can be traced back to Amazing stories and Weird Tales…
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Face the Music
Congratulations, you’ve reached the end of the road! It’s time to face the music and come to terms with the fact that your niche/job/gig is about to become a public good. Don’t worry, it’s not your fault, you just happen to be the victim of circumstance. But don’t worry, I’m here to help you recognize…
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Jump Over Rhodes
The quote “As for the individual, every one is a son of his time; so philosophy also is its time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as foolish to fancy that any philosophy can transcend its present world, as that an individual could leap out of his time or jump over Rhodes” by German philosopher…
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The City and the City: Jerusalem
The City and the City is a science-fiction novel by British author China Mieville, which explores the concept of two cities that exist in the same physical space but are perceived as distinct and separate by their inhabitants. The book’s central themes of identity, perception, and borders make it a compelling lens through which to…
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Awaken the Mind by Fixing it Nowhere
The Zen proverb “Awaken the mind by fixing it nowhere” is a powerful reminder of the importance of mindfulness and meditation in our daily lives. At its core, Zen is a philosophy and practice that emphasizes the cultivation of awareness and mindfulness, with the goal of achieving a state of clarity and inner peace. The…
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HIERONYMUS & BOSCH
Edwin Turner | January 14, 2019 | 9 comments HIERONYMUS & BOSCH Paul Kirchner’s Hieronymus & Bosch collects over eighty comic strips that riff on the afterlife of a “shameless ne’er-do-well named Hieronymus” and his faithful wooden toy duck, Bosch. The hapless pair are trapped in Hell, the primary setting for most of the strips (although we do get…
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Paul Kircher’s Dope Rider from High Times