The Vedas operate like foundational field equations: hymns that set cosmological symmetries, ritual operators, and priestly mediators that maintain the sacrificial vacuum. Their liturgies are bosonic actions transmitting sacred charge between human and cosmic realms. The sacrificial system establishes selection rules that regulate social stratification and perform energy transfers (offerings), preserving cosmic order (ṛta). In … Continue reading 5. The Vedas (India)
4. The Book of the Dead (Ancient Egypt)
The Book of the Dead functions as a manual for traversing the post-mortem vacuum: a set of boundary conditions and selection rules for the soul-field’s passage through the underworld. Each spell is a local operator altering the probability amplitude of safe passage—preserving identity-mass against decay. The heart-weighing scene is a literal measurement device: the scales … Continue reading 4. The Book of the Dead (Ancient Egypt)
3. The Instruction of Ptahhotep (Ancient Egypt)
The Instruction of Ptahhotep is a low-energy effective theory: a compact Lagrangian of social rules that regulate interaction in an Egyptian legal-gauge. Its aphorisms act like conserved currents—protocols that minimize conflict and stabilize the civic vacuum. Each proverb functions as a mediated interaction (gauge boson) transmitting authority from elder to younger generations. The "mass" these … Continue reading 3. The Instruction of Ptahhotep (Ancient Egypt)
2. The Tale of Sinuhe (Ancient Egypt)
The Tale of Sinuhe reads as an early field-theory experiment in identity and exile. Sinuhe is a fermionic excitation displaced from the Egyptian vacuum by war and rumor; his wandering through Levantine courts resembles a particle propagating through different media with varying coupling constants—hospitality, dishonor, foreign custom. Egypt itself functions as a dominant Higgs-like background … Continue reading 2. The Tale of Sinuhe (Ancient Egypt)
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
Gilgamesh is a prototypical heavy excitation resisting mortality. Enkidu’s entrance turns the two into a bound pair, like a baryonic composite stabilized by intense mutual coupling. Enkidu’s death is a perturbation that shifts Gilgamesh’s vacuum: the hero gains existential mass—grief, wisdom—forcing a search for permanence (immortality) that results in a renormalized appreciation of the communal … Continue reading 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
Reading the canon of world literature
Chapter 21; Ulysses by James Joyce.July 15th, 2015Description Quotes in Ulysses;- The mirror is the instrument of the narcist and solipsist, the broken looking glass is the instrument of the artist.- History is my reversal omnibucal cord to humankind. It’s nothing that I suffer from, but something I keep contributing to.- Is a ghost any … Continue reading Reading the canon of world literature
Reading the canon of World Literature
Chapter 20; Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac.July 2nd, 2015Summary Most of the action is centered around a boarding house called Maison Vauquer, ran by a widow, Mme. Vauquer. The story relates mostly to the interactions between Jean-Joachim Goriot, a retired vermicelli maker who bankrupted himself to give his daughters a better future; a secretive … Continue reading Reading the canon of World Literature
Reading the Canon of World Literature
Chapter 19; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainJune 25th, 2015This book counts 366 pages and was first published in 1884 in the UK and a year later in the US. It played mainly along the Mississippi River into a pre-civil war society that already 20 years ceased to exist by the time the … Continue reading Reading the Canon of World Literature
A Synopsis of US literature: Science Fiction
An answer to Pynchon’s question "What comes now?" is heavily explored by an often-neglected facet of US literature; science fiction, a genre that contemplates possible futures. Because science fiction spans the spectrum from the plausible to the fanciful, its relationship with science has been both nurturing and contentious. HG Wells who, by most critics, is … Continue reading A Synopsis of US literature: Science Fiction
A Synopsis of US literature: 1960 – 1980.
The 1960s, a period often called the "Sixties" or the "Swinging Sixties," were characterized by significant social, political, and cultural shifts. Key themes included the fight for civil rights, the Vietnam War, the rise of the counterculture, the sexual revolution, and the beginning of the feminist movement. The decade witnessed both optimism and upheaval, with … Continue reading A Synopsis of US literature: 1960 – 1980.
Synopsis of US literature: 1930 – 1960
In the early thirties, the first reaction to the depression was a literature of social protest. The failure of the American dream became the main theme in Jewish-American literature. The novel “Call it Sleep" mixes Marxism and Freudian theory, Jewish mythology and a stream of consciousness writing style. Farrell writes more about spiritual poverty then … Continue reading Synopsis of US literature: 1930 – 1960
A Synopsis of Us Literature: 1890 -1910.
In the 1890's, many realists became naturalists, a term created by Emile Zola. For them realism was an ideology and the novel had the power to become a political weapon. Crane had the view that life and death are determined by fate. He wrote about a man who said to the Universe "Sir, I exist! … Continue reading A Synopsis of Us Literature: 1890 -1910.
A sinsopsis of US literature: 1854 – 1890
European observers, who take a close look at the characteristics that they qualify as typical for white Americans, discover soon that they were originally attributes of the American Indian. The liberation from a social hierarchy and the idea that “all men are born equal” is also an American Indigenous invention that crossed the Atlantic Ocean … Continue reading A sinsopsis of US literature: 1854 – 1890
A sinopsis of US literature: 1810 – 1854.
1810 - 1840 is known as the Knickerbockers’ Era of American literature. The name comes from "A History of New York" by Dietrich Knickerbocker, a pseudonym of Washington Irving. It was a humorous rather than a serious history of the city. He invented many of the events and legends he wrote about in the book. … Continue reading A sinopsis of US literature: 1810 – 1854.
A Brief Sinopsis of US literature: 1735 – 1810.
In the early days of independence, American novels served a useful purpose. They used realistic details to describe the reality of American life. But when some of the good American literature started to arise above the time and place where they were written; these works became universal. The oldest examples are the sketches and observations … Continue reading A Brief Sinopsis of US literature: 1735 – 1810.
Reading the Canon of World Literature
Chapter 18; Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes.May, 20th, 2015.Summary.The main character got introduced as Alonso Quixano, a financially independent old man who spends all his time on reading tales about medieval knights ‘s slaughtering dragons and saving princesses.He became so obsessed with this subject that one day he puts on his bet grandfather’s harness, changes … Continue reading Reading the Canon of World Literature
Reading and location: Shantaram’s Mumbai
Shantaram is another book that should be read while gathering impressions of a place. It is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict escapes from Pentridge Prison and flees to India. The novel is commended by many for its vivid portrayal of life in Bombay … Continue reading Reading and location: Shantaram’s Mumbai
Reading and Location. The Cemetery of Forgotten Books and Barcelona.
I came to the realization that there are certain novels wherein the authors elevate their settings almost to the level of a protagonist. Most of them are big cities and if, by chance of whim, you possess a more intimate knowledge of their layout, history, and inhabitants, it increases manifold the reading experience. Even more … Continue reading Reading and Location. The Cemetery of Forgotten Books and Barcelona.
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
Reshuffling my Art and Finding my own Style.
I decided to pause the report of my quest into the canon of the world literature because there was a similar hiatus in my exploration process back then in 2015 that actually lasted till May 20th, 2015. Instead I'm going to expand a little bit upon how I've recently developed my own artist's style or … Continue reading Reshuffling my Art and Finding my own Style.
The Maharajagar 