“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.”
Wiki : Ninon de l’Enclos Despite the MS History BS about Ninon, she’s always been a bit of a heroine to me. So much so that I named my range of hand-knits after her. I have two biographies and many articles about this famous “courtesan” and her life. So what drew me to her? […]
Sometimes it’s very sobering to step back from the big picture and look to your own life to ask the question above! Three times in 24 hours I’ve been “caught” watching this on the big TV, whilst being “allowed” time alone to do MY stuff. Each time I’ve had the same demand… …”WHY are […]
Lord only knows how I ended up with another duplicate on my shelves. Shrug! But I’ve read Chrétien de Troyes…twice…apparently! Anyway and by the by. The book I’m reading right now, written by the man who’s name I will NEVER type here – Describes the Fool Card – #0 in the Tarot – in many […]
How DARK d’y’all wanna go? This is the FALSE (?) history we’re being fed day in day out. I’ve seen so many of the pictures that Brief Case uses in this video on soooooooo many other yt channels :o( Were there opiod addicted women in Victorian Britain that were so very soulless that they’d ACTUALLY […]
Dunno ’bout y’all but I’m loving this social distancing vibe. Feck off and let ME do MY work. Oh, yes :o) The next monograph – being researched and written right now – is about how many goddesses are actually the same person. I’m starting in Egypt with Neith/Minerva/Athena. WikistickitupyourWiki : Neith Their attributes give […]
Y’all can go forth & un-multiply. I’m a Sag. ZERO patience for NEW beginning. Pshaw! I’m still hugging MY friends and they’re still hugging me. I LOVE & AM LOVED That was/is my tag line on Twitter…when I was a stupid TWIT who tweeted. Another tag line was/is Don’t you dare tell […]
Refs out the wa-zoo : Mary Gentle – Ash. The Golem. The Pyramids. The Voices etc Bill Nighy/Shaun of the Dead/Limehouse Golem Hotel Paradiso/Bottom/Simon Pegg/Paul the Movie/Nick Frost/Sigourney Weaver/Alien/Worlds End Pub/Mission Impossible/Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman/Dead Calm/Virginia Woolf/The Others et al WTFluff? Endless strands to this web :o( It took me 3 days to watch The Limehouse […]
It is the fundamental urge of all living creatures to re-produce, to seek protection in the safety of numbers and to seek order through some form of social harmony. As human beings differ little from this, all over the world from the beginning of recorded time societies have existed, which have bound it’s population together […]
The White Crow, one-time Soldier-Scholar of the Invisible College and a practitioner of Hermetic science and magic, and Baltazar Casaubon, architect and lover, a man not too particular about his personal hygiene, are two of Mary Gentle’s finest creations. The worlds they stride across range from the Renaissance city where aristocratic rats rule the human […]
From whence cometh this primeval CALL to Arms? Wiki : Thunder Clap Motherwell F.C? Iceland? 300? With Gerard the Scottish actor who could NEVER quite Unholywood trained disguise his accent? IMHO – I don’t care. I LOVE THIS V iking V IBE :o)