I just finished reading the personal diaries of Eve and Adam - you know, the original humans.  It would appear that Mark Twain discovered the original manuscripts and succeeded to translate the ancient hieroglyphs somehow (perhaps he used a top hat) and published them to the world.  I will be…

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This week I present Robo-Readings from the blog leasthelpful.com . Who are the least helpful reviewers on Amazon? Fretful mothers, English students or Christians? You Decide.

Playlist

1-Hagwarts

Alleee 1

Hotel California-Mariachi Version

John North Wright * I'm On medication

2-Bad spoons

Kanui and Lula * Tomi Tomi

O Dobbstown, Brave Dobbstown

3-Pregnant…

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Unlike the character I covered in the last instalment of this series,Homer's Thersites, Lucian was a real person who starred in his own satirical works, written in Greek for an…

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As an outlet for the repressed literature student in me, I'm starting up this new series that focuses on characters in ancient Western literature who show some sign of skepticism or freethinking. By extension I'll also show the quacks, charlatans or authorities they dare to annoy with their tiresome voices of…

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Fiction is a good way of sneaking atheist thinking into the attention of faith-afflicted readers.    The following is a good example. 

The quotes are from pages 103 to 105 of the novel 'The Mystery Of The Locks' by Edgar Watson Howe.   The novel was published in 1885.   



In the following dialogue, a newly wed couple discusses her wish to be reunited in heaven after death, and he expresses his wish, this could be true, in spite of his lack of religious belief.     …

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Blood Moon Chapter 3 rewritten

I was dissatisfied with the existing chapters, the story wasn’t bad but the writing was terrible so I rewrote them



A man ran though the burnt out remains of a house. His hair brown, his skin tan, his cloths covered in dry blood. “Yemima! Illean!” The man called but no one answered. The man stopped in the middle of the remains he beheld a burned and dismembered corpse of a woman.… Continue

In a search around the Web while I procrastinate and contemplate my relationship with a man who seems sometimes a Christian fundamentalist to me, I came across this lovely piece by Mary Gordon wherein she describes the importance of literature to civilization's moral make-up. (Though my dear one's occasional bouts of fundamentalism worry me, his erudition and love of ideas have led me in intellectually enriching directions. For that I… Continue

I just joined AN recently, and I have started two groups. The first is LOVERS OF SHAKESPEARE, a group for fans of the Bard. Topics are open to just about anything Shakespeare. We already have 12 members, and 7 discussions going on.



The second group is ARS POETICA, a group for those who love poetry, anyone who is just curious, and everyone in between. You are welcome… Continue