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
6. The Upanishads (India)
The Upanishads function as renormalization techniques for inner life. They propose methods for subtracting superficial divergences—ego, desire—to reveal a more fundamental field of Brahman. Practices they recommend (meditation, ethical discipline) are operators reducing self-interaction terms and allowing consciousness to experience unified modes. In SLM, the Upanishads describe a path to lower-energy coherence: when the individual … Continue reading 6. The Upanishads (India)
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)
Toward a Standard Literary Model
This post proposes a speculative yet disciplined framework for reimagining world literature: the Standard Literary Model (SLM). Inspired by the elegance of the Standard Model of particle physics, the SLM treats stories not as static cultural objects but as fields, forces, and interacting particles within a vast narrative cosmos.The goal is not to collapse literature … Continue reading Toward a Standard Literary Model
The Legacy of the Maharajagar
When the last page turns, the story does not end.
Alec Bannon: From Journalist to Spiral Self
The man who began by chasing stories ends by binding timelines.
How do the 3 metathemes relate to the content of the Maharajagar?
Let’s now explore how those three meta-themes (as described in the foreword) integrate with the content, structure, and symbolism of The Maharajagar across the whole saga: "The All is a projection of informational modulated energy waves by a cosmically horizon on the time-space continuum."Interpretation in the series:This is a deeply metaphysical idea—drawing from quantum field … Continue reading How do the 3 metathemes relate to the content of the Maharajagar?
The Maharajagar: The Title as a Mythic Graft
At its core, The Maharajagar is a literary graft onto the Mahabharata, one of the world’s greatest epics. The word “Maharajagar” itself is a constructed or mythopoeic name—evocative of Sanskrit roots:• “Maha” = great• “Raja” = king or ruler• “Gar” / “Agar” = abode, gathering, or enclosureThus, "The Maharajagar" can be interpreted as “The Great … Continue reading The Maharajagar: The Title as a Mythic Graft
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?
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.
An Emporium of Order and Chaos.
The title and image of this post refer to an artistically diary in which I’m resuming and catalogizing my artistic and literary creations, larded with thoughts, philosophies, and observations that induced them.The chronological order in which the works were produced has been abandoned in favor of a systematic approach were the subjects are brought together … Continue reading An Emporium of Order and Chaos.
Creative Urbanism, Installation, mixed techniques on wood W 400 x H240 cm x D50 cm
This installation critiques urbanism for potentially perpetuating a systemic gentrify-cation, emphasizing that the ideal of creating cultural-historical homogenic modern real estate overlooks the economic realities faced by many inhabitants of poorer neighborhoods, which often cannot sustain such developments. The European subsides for such projects are too often getting into the pockets of real estate project … Continue reading Creative Urbanism, Installation, mixed techniques on wood W 400 x H240 cm x D50 cm
About Transcribing Finnegans Wake in plain English.
The primary transcription goal of Finnegans Wake into Here Comes Everybody’s Karma (isbn 9781737783299) was to open Joyce’s Opus Magnum for a wider reading public by replacing the foreign language idiosyncrasies with an English equivalent and by streamlining Joyce’s sibylline prose.This required me to engage with the prose of Finnegans Wake that goes beyond that … Continue reading About Transcribing Finnegans Wake in plain English.
The Clan. Acrylic on a black canvas 80 x 60 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023).
The Clan is the third installation of a series of five #paintings I’ve made around a time that coincides with the yearly festival of #Halloween 2023. The frames contain some earlier reflections I had about the aftermath of the recent #pandemic. The stylistic concept deviates substantially from most of my other works, although parallels can … Continue reading The Clan. Acrylic on a black canvas 80 x 60 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023).
A Society in Transit. Expanded catalog, 166 p., isbn 9798865037835, by Shaharee Vyaas ( Kindle version $ 4,99)
Click on this image to be directed to the amazon page. Arundhati Roy //The system will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling…their ideas, their version of history, their wars…their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We may be many, and they be few… Another world is not only possible, she is on … Continue reading A Society in Transit. Expanded catalog, 166 p., isbn 9798865037835, by Shaharee Vyaas ( Kindle version $ 4,99)
Wokean Nation. Acrylic on canvas W 30 cm x H 20 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
#Woke and #anti-woke #crusaders are the two prominent movements that give shape at the current #political landscape. Both #movements #cancel the works from artists and writers that don't wholeheartedly support their rhetoric. It is accompanied with violent street clashes between two parties with opposite views about fundamental values. One wants to curb the rising gun-violence … Continue reading Wokean Nation. Acrylic on canvas W 30 cm x H 20 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
The Dark Sides of Religion (part 3/5): Nirvana. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
Nirvana in Buddhism is a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. Gurus talk about the universal mind and about the futility of power, knowledge, and material desires. Looked upon from a … Continue reading The Dark Sides of Religion (part 3/5): Nirvana. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
Civilization and Cosmos: part 1
My latest project concerns itself with a multimedia installation that consists of a rotating rhombicuboctahedron that is suspended in a magnetic field. The twelve square faces of the rhombicuboctahedron are carrying an image that represents the mythological aspects of the main celestial bodies that make our planetary system. While the installation makes every two minutes … Continue reading Civilization and Cosmos: part 1
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
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
The Maharajagar 