“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.”
Written by Allegra Printz : “The Ring (Wagner’s opera and the ancient stories) speaks to such current experiences as the need for the old order – “ancient fires” – of the Piscean Age to recognise and yield to the incoming qualities of the Aquarian Age in an energetic transition due to the precession of the […]
Oh. I may’ve got sidetracked somewhere today. Back to me, me, me. I’ve reached the Synopsis.v Do not get me on that subject. Writing a synopsis Hurts one’s brain! Anyhoos Plot Synopsis of the four part Ring of the Nibelung Prologue. What? Get on with the juice!! Oh, The Rhinegold. Or Rheingold, Or…. Scene One […]
Finally. After almost 2 hours. I get to open my new delivery. The first thing I read is… Prophesy of Völuspá – The Seeress Hear me, all you hallowed beings, Both high and low, THE FATES I FATHOM, YET FARTHER I SEE Icelandic Poetic Edda – 9th -11th Cent. C.E. I have sooooo […]
The illustration above comes from the original epic poem (which is really prose) that I’m reading now. I have Never come across this before but it is a beautiful gift that’s a bit (!) addictive :o) The TBR pile just fell over. M’eh! The poem, strangely enough, is not set in Georgia, but in […]
I’ve only seen the b & w film. (Edit. Sozzies. It wasn’t b and w. It was COLOUR. My bad memory) Always hated….sorry….disliked this story. Yukky. War of the Worlds Album – much better. Oscar Wilde…? Richard Burton? Silly me. Orson Welles! Tut.
I have this weird obsession with the Egyptology bits of museums. The best I’ve ever seen was/were in the Louvre. I have a zillion photos. Many of them of the mummified cats. I still can’t work that concept out. Why do that to a cat? Anyhoos – a book I have but (my bad) haven’t […]
In my world : Zwei bier, bitte. Or ~: Alles Über Die Platz. Original Nibelungenlied MS Uns ist in alten mæren || wunders vil geseitvon helden lobebæren,|| von grôzer arebeit,von fröuden, hôchgezîten, || von weinen und von klagen,von küener recken strîten || muget ir nu wunder hœren sagen. Thank goodness for translators […]
Wiki : Polyarchy I’m finding this intro to Choniates work quite interesting. An earthquake in 1162? A comet in 1182 that FORETOLD the end of Andronicus I Comnenus?