“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
From Bonnie Wheeler, Joan of Arc Scholar : The Great Schism. The other great crisis of European civilization against which backdrop Joan’s drama was staged was the Great Schism of the Roman Catholic church. Between 1378 and 1417, church leadership was claimed by two popes, one residing at Rome and the other at Avignon. MY SCHISM – Nov 2019 Yup. […]
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That’s if you write day, month, year as we do in the UK :o)
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The faceless knight is an image much used in Fantasy Computer games and such like! Or it has become the subject of some very weird and disturbing theories about suits of armour being created to hide WORMY Creatures. OK. Disclaimer : I am NOT an expert on Heraldry. This is just another subject that has […]
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I’ve a soft spot for this poet. He has so many links for me. His mother was sister to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His sister was Mary (whom some think might’ve written the Bard’s works.) He fell out with Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and challenged him to a duel. Which […]
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Some extremely clever person took the image above, which was published in the Rosicrucian pamphlet Speculum sophicum rhodostauroticum – 1618, and worked out the sacred geometry encoded there. He found da Vinci’s star. The same star that is hidden in Vitruvian Man. He also found several other hidden secrets in the lines, including something that […]
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Being a person with very dark hair (not black but almost) and white skin (I’m a Northerner) I’ve tended to have a very black and white view of life. But age brings : devenir gris, (blanchir) grow grey, to Verb (grows grey; grew grey; growing grey) be ageing, to Verb (is ageing; ageing) I no […]
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Vainglory by Geraldine McCaughrean is one of those HistFic books that is a keeper on my shelves. Vainglory : excessive or ostentatious pride especially in one’s achievements. 2 : vain display or show : vanity. This book starts in 1429 (Jehanne d’Arc : Siege of Orléans !) An oft quoted line from this novel is […]
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I’ve got to…Got to…GOT TO watch this film again !
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3.6.9. I need $300 by (at best) the 6th of March to secure this website for another year. I might have covered all 9 of the Muses here…? You will be the death of me Bury itI won’t let you bury itI won’t let you smother itI won’t let you murder it HELP?
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There is a HUGE gap between Beyond All Reasonable Doubt and Circumstantial Evidence or the Balance of Probabilities. Because of my previous life, I’ve been a strictly Beyond ALL REASONABLE DOUBT kind of person. A bit like Thomas. Don’t tell me. I have to see it with my own eyes…etc. But – there is also […]
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Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense. I translate that as : Evil Be To Him Who Evil Thinks. Dunno if it’s correct but what the hey. This is a quote that has followed me throughout my life and most people in the UK will have seen it. Right now – I’m researching the ancient Order […]
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I have that skin-crawly feeling that I’m being watched. It’s Watching. It’s Hungry…..And it’s not by Satchmo. My traveller-in-mayhem and I have many things in common. Apart from causing mayhem from Wales to the Middle East – we also love horror movies. She likes Jeepers Creepers (ME : #disgusting) I like Dracula (HER : #boring) […]
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