“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.”
Examines the human quest for knowledge and discoveries as it discusses such men as Galileo, Adam Smith, Columbus, Marx, Napoleon, Magellan, Faraday, Freud, Marco Polo, and St. Augustine. I’ve had this book forever and dip into it now and again. I dipped in today and found something quite interesting in Book 2, Part IV, 14. […]
Now – is that Forged as in “copied illegally?” Or Forged as in – Made by Fire? There are MANY things that can be copied Illegally. But NOT – MY Voice, MY DNA, MY Parents, MY Ancestral History, MY research. Or MY LIFE EXPERIENCE! I’ve lived in Ulster twice. And LOVE this accent. So close […]
I was the Injun, trying to (privately) help a Cow-BOIIIIII with the History of the American Wild West. The reference was taken and used to further the Cowboi’s Public Image of Self-Proclaimed Cleverness via yt. I was the Ghost at the Banquet. Seeing all but unable to speak. Because I’d been #banned :o( MY life […]
Almost 2 years now. I’ve given every ounce of help that I can to certain people and NOT ONE of them has even the most basic of Good Manners. Not that I gave anything solely with the Entitled Expectation of being given back to. I was just NOT EXPECTING this campaign of Unending HATRED and […]
One of the Multitudinous Crazy Things that I researched for my novel was… Xenophon : On Horsemanship Why? Because I’d not been fortunate enough to grow up with horses and I needed to know a bit about them. Why? Because of… Antoine de Pluvinel Why? Because he was THE expert On Horsemanship in 17th century […]
Good Grief! I got to page 24 (at last) and went to check up one small thing about Sufism, that had Nothing to do with religion and !BAM! I get a short sharp lesson about…World Religion. It started with Shi’ah and Shi’ite. Sufism is very mystical and grew from the Shi’ah side of Islam. The […]
For some weird reason, I was given info about the above this morning. Never heard of it before…but the dates and the tribal history intrigued me. STARVED ROCK I’ll leave the thought here for someone who is more familiar with Native American Tribal History than I am :o)
OMG! Who’d’ve thunk that a life time spent reading literature would be SO relevant for ME today? The Fall of the House of Usher Roderick BURIES his TWIN sister ALIVE! LMFAO :o)
In my entire life, I’ve yet to meet a Normal Person who will wilfully quote tracts of the Bible at me. Even though an “acclaimed” version of said book is named after one of OUR monarchs. KJV. WE just DO NOT do this. We are a Christian country. We understand the Bible. BUT – we […]