“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.”
If you haven’t read Bram Stoker’s Dracula…. ….Spoiler Alert StickyAussieWiki : Lucy Westenra I maybe/might’ve/somewuheres said – the audiobook spoken by Greg Wise (Schwoon even tho’ he is Emma Thompson’s second husband after DeathNeverRecoveredSchwoon Ken Bran) and Saskia Reeves
I’m reading a travelogue from 1838/39. It’s got almost all the -isms. Racism, sillyism, sexism, BSism…But it’s wonderful nonetheless. They are approaching Prague,
WikiNotSoPicky : Nemean lion I won’t even bother going into Agatha Christie’s Twelve Labours of Hercules. The book or the David Suchet programme! Let’s jump straight to LEWIS (top 5 fave TV series) The Lions of Nemea
In modern angelology, Uriel is identified variously as a seraph, cherub, regent of the sun, flame of God, angel of the divine presence, presider over Tartarus (hell), archangel of salvation, and, in later scriptures, identified with Phanuel (“face of God”). By the by Tartarus is NOT Hell !!!!!! Take it or Leave it Vibe. Free Will. Wiki : Uriel […]
I’ve just spent half the morning looking for a certain book that I KNOW I have. Can I find it? Nope. The faeries have whisked it away. Pesky little blighters :o( Anyhoo – this one popped out instead. I’d forgotten all about it! Two texts previously published separately combined in a single volume, these […]
For some weirdo reason, I felt the need to go back to the beginning today. Go Figure. You know that saying? All roads lead to Rome Aha. But which Rome? From NC : THE FIRST ROMAN KINGDOM OF THE OLD ROME. This chapter is also brief, as very little data has survived. It appears […]
My apologies. I was going to go in-depth into The Clouds but real life got in the way. As per usual :o( Anyhoo – the sources are freely available to y’all to check. Here is the NC CONCLUSION about Aristophanes’ play THE CLOUDS CONCLUSIONS. Apparently, in the drama of Aristophanes “Clouds” the gospel story […]
Socrates is the Single Most Important Character in Aristophanes’ play! Socrates via SparkNotes As mentioned earlier, the Socrates that Aristophanes presents is a composite of several current philosophers and sophists, such as Anaxagoras, Diogenes, Protagoras, Hippon, Korax, and Gorgias. Therefore, Socrates is as much of a “personification” as Just Argument and Unjust Argument. […]
Right now…Only Two characters from The Clouds are important. Strepsiades via Spark Notes Strepsiades is the anti-hero of Aristophanes’s play. He is an older Athenian citizen and a farmer. He married a well-to-do girl with aristocratic pretensions and has a son, Pheidippides, who has inherited the young woman’s rarified tastes and has begun running […]