Category: Literature

Neuromancer                     William Gibson Velcro Christian Science precis Straylite  Wintermute Tessier-Ashpool Akai The Hosaka Bell Europa Angara Podhamennaya Screaming Fist Corto Nightwing Mole IX cybernetics Virus Cabal Heroin Thailand Killer Bonn Wichita bankroller Schizophrenia Fantan Zhonshen Beyoglu Shinjuku suit Fener Sanyo Sultan Hatice 1660 Yeheyuans Seraglio Turing heat Trenchcoat Porsche glasses Space-station ganga Bon bon .357…

Greek Mythology    (lineage)  Cronos Son of Uranus – Ruler of the Universe Cronos’s Mother: Gaia Gaia’s Children included: Youngest: (hundred-handed) Hecatonchires and (one-eyed) Cyclopes, Uranus imprisons these two in Tartarus Gaia angered asks her other children to step forth and kill Uranus Cronos dutifully accepts the task Cronos castrates father Uranus and throws his testicles into…

Doctor Faustus       by Thomas Mann The late Adrian Leverkuhn A musical genius In Freisburg on the Isar, 23 May, 1943, two years after Leverkuhn’s death – from the depths of night to deeper night. Viola d’ampore Descendant of the German humanists associated with ‘Letters of Obscure Men’, an heir to Reuchlin, Crotus of Dornheim, Mutianus,…

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’           by Oscar Wilde –          Schumann’s Forest Scene –          Les court Nouvelles –          Manon Lescaut –          Mercutio –          Melbourne –          Achilles statue –          Marble Arch –          ‘What do you mean by good, Harry?’ –          Caliban –          Doges –          Louis Quinze –          Ophelia –         …

Myth of Sisyphus by  Albert Camus An Abstract Reasoning –          An intellectual malady Absurdity and Suicide –          There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide –          Nietzsche –          Galileo –          the method of the Palisse and the method of Don Quixote –          The relationship between individual thought and suicide –          ‘undermined’…