At the very core of Goddessarts Magazine’s identity is Lena Snow—a creator whose vision has been the magazine’s guiding force from its inception. As the founder and artistic spirit behind the publication, Lena Snow’s passion for championing meaningful, transformative art is woven into every page and initiative.Lena’s journey began with a desire to carve out … Continue reading Lena Snow: The Visionary Behind Goddessarts Magazine
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)
What drives the Maharajagar?
This novel uses metaphors, symbols, ambiguities, and overtones which gradually link themselves together to form a network of connections binding the whole work. This system of connections gives the novel a wide, more universal significance as the tale becomes a modern microcosm presented from a fictive metaphysical perspective. This system can be described as the … Continue reading What drives the Maharajagar?
An impending book launch: The Maharajagar
I know that I'm a poor internaut. When inspiration strikes me, I just disappear in my studio and the blogosphere will have to keep running without me. It probably saddled me up with a a couple of D's in its subroutine. To blog is to be on the internet. Now what happened that I risked … Continue reading An impending book launch: The Maharajagar
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
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: Dublin and Finnegans Wake.
In Finnegans Wake, James Joyce uses various representations of Dublin, including the double-n "nn" (total negation) and the Irish name Baile Atha Cliath (Town of the Ford of Hurdles). Joyce often draws parallels between Dublin and other cities, believing that the particular can reveal the universal. This name appears frequently in the book, along with … Continue reading Reading and Location: Dublin and Finnegans Wake.
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.
Reading the Canon of the World Literature: March 28 – 31
Buddenbrooks; The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann. March 28, 2015.Buddenbrooks is a voluminous; partially autobiographically novel that describes the relentless decline of a family living in the North German town of Lubeck between 1834 and 1877. At first sight, the ideas developed into this novel seem a little outdated and the style of … Continue reading Reading the Canon of the World Literature: March 28 – 31
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.
Inventory Time
It's that time of the year were all society's gears slow down a little bit to re-focus on their different familial nuclei and take stock of what has been done while looking forward to what has to be done. Blogging- wise this hasn't been such a productive year for me since there have been months … Continue reading Inventory Time
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 Maharajagar 