In the Standard Literary Model, The Odyssey behaves like a baryon: a bound state of wanderer, memory, and fate locked into an oscillatory pattern by the strong force of home. Odysseus is a quark of identity that refuses confinement yet can never fully escape it; every island he encounters is another local minimum in the … Continue reading 8. The Odyssey — Homer
7. The Iliad — Homer
The Iliad is a collision event—two massive bodies (Achilles’ rage and Troy’s stubborn dignity) smashing together in a storm of hadronic debris. The poem behaves like a high-energy scattering experiment in which honor, mortality, and divine interference are particles exchanging momentum with catastrophic results. Achilles is effectively a top quark: heavier than the narrative can … Continue reading 7. The Iliad — Homer
Ambrose Bierce, the Lost King of Kirata
The man who vanished in Mexico did not die—he became legend.
The Hidden Empire of Kirata
Once lost beneath the Labyrinth, now the heart of rebirth.
The Cintamani: The Stone That Dreams
Not all relics give power—some awaken the universe itself.
The Cintamani: Gem of Chaos and Creation
It is both a blessing and a curse, a jewel that can reorder the universe — or unmake it entirely.
Alec Bannon: From Journalist to Spiral Self
The man who began by chasing stories ends by binding timelines.
What is the Maharajagar about?
The Maharajagar is an epic, genre-blending saga of myth, memory, and power, set against the shifting backdrops of early 20th-century Earth and beyond. Rooted in historical fantasy and inspired by the structure of the Mahabharata, the series traces the paths of a diverse ensemble of characters bound together by fate, ancient forces, and a mysterious … Continue reading What is the Maharajagar about?
Unlocking Finnegans Wake: Free Plain English Version
I invite everyone who has been putting Finnegans Wake aside as an unreadable Moloch, to have a look at this transcription in plain English that you can download for free during the weekend (from Friday May 23, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT till Saturday May 24, 2025, 11:59 PM PDT ) by following this link. You … Continue reading Unlocking Finnegans Wake: Free Plain English Version
Reading the Canon of the World Literature Feb 24 till feb 25
4; Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.February 24, 2015Today I feel already a little more confident than two days ago when I was agonizing over the fact that after one month and a half into the new year I only managed to clear two titles from my list. This time I managed to check one off the … Continue reading Reading the Canon of the World Literature Feb 24 till feb 25
Reading the Canon of the World Literature – day 1 to 15.
I made nine years ago a new year's resolution to read the Top 100 Works in World Literature by the Norwegian Book Clubs with the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The club polled a panel of 100 authors from 54 countries on what they considered the “best and most central works in world literature.”I was setting out … Continue reading Reading the Canon of the World Literature – day 1 to 15.
Imperfection is a Form of Freedom. Acrylic on canvas 40.6 x 40.6 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
"I’m fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again. - Benjamin Alire Saenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster." This painting is … Continue reading Imperfection is a Form of Freedom. Acrylic on canvas 40.6 x 40.6 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
Last Supper on Utila
This painting stands at the cradle of my becoming as an artist. It is inspired by a painting of Dali (The Last Supper) and contains all the main actors that have got a heavy influence upon the way I developed my personal style and philosophy. In the center figures Leonardo da Vinci, which I consider … Continue reading Last Supper on Utila
Relaxing at Utila’s South Shore
The South shore of Utila is separated by a small channel and a lagoon from the main part of the island. Not astonishingly it's the residency of Utila's most recluse and privacy minded expats. It has however a popular beach bar called Neptune's that can only be reached by boat from the main part of … Continue reading Relaxing at Utila’s South Shore
Party cave on Utila
La Cueva is a little drinking hole on Utila that is popular among the young backpackers because it's situated right at the ferry dock in the middle of town, stays open till late night, their pricing is among the most affordable on the Island, and their music and bohemian ambiance is much loved by the … Continue reading Party cave on Utila
Epiphany at Utila’s Pumpkin Hill Beach
An Epiphany is a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. This post's illustration features a beach that, from the position of our house, is located at the other side of the Island. Which is of course … Continue reading Epiphany at Utila’s Pumpkin Hill Beach
Utila’s Bandu Beach at Sunset
Bandu beach is just a two minutes walk away from our house and is our preferable spot to watch sunset. Like everywhere in the tropics, sunset is proceeding fast: between dusk and the moment the sun disappears behind the horizon there lies an approximative 30 minutes timespan. That is however compensated by the fact that … Continue reading Utila’s Bandu Beach at Sunset
Welcome to Utila
This post is the first in a series of 13 impressions of my winter residency Utila. You can find the Island of Utila in the Caribbean. It consists of a small coral reef that has roughly about 5,000 inhabitants, of which about half of them are expatriates. It forms part of the Bay Islands, an … Continue reading Welcome to Utila
The Front Yard of Eden
After some cumbersome trekking I arrived at the center of my artistic universe. On top of this post you find an artistic impression that I´ve titled The Front Yard of Eden (acrylic on canvas 46 x 25 cm). To reach the front yard of Eden, the curious explorers will need to leave the beaten tourist … Continue reading The Front Yard of Eden
Lost
Lost (acrylic on canvas 46 x 23 cm) is a painting that expresses a feeling that's very common nowadays. It features some African people who rather risk their lives by crossing a sea in an overloaded shaky dingy than to suffer a miserable existence in their homelands, the Arab man who finds no better purpose … Continue reading Lost
The Maharajagar 