After being absent on this forum for a couple of months, I can now resurface with a new project that has been absorbing all my time and energy. I'm planning to launch this novel during the Bloomsday Festival in Dublin on June 11th between 6 - 8 pm at The Hole In The Wall Pub, … Continue reading Here Comes Everybody’s Karma
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.
Civilization and Cosmos. Part 13: Eris
In this post I want you to bring part 13 and last episode of my latest project (for those who missed out on part 1, more info at the bottom of this post). If you want to hear the audio, just click on the image (duration 150 sec) Eris. Mixed technics on canvas 45 x … Continue reading Civilization and Cosmos. Part 13: Eris
Civilization and Cosmos. Part 12: Charon
In this post I want you to bring part 12 of my latest project (for those who missed out on part 1, more info at the bottom of this post). If you want to hear the audio, just click on the image (duration 150 sec) Charon. Mixed technics on canvas 45 x 45 cm by … Continue reading Civilization and Cosmos. Part 12: Charon
Civilization and Cosmos. Part 11: Pluto
In this post I want you to bring part 11 of my latest project (for those who missed out on part 1, more info at the bottom of this post). If you want to hear the audio, just click on the image (duration 140 sec). Pluto. Mixed technics on canvas 45 x 45 cm by … Continue reading Civilization and Cosmos. Part 11: Pluto
Civilization and Cosmos. Part 10: Neptune
In this post I want you to bring part 10 of my latest project (for those who missed out on part 1, more info at the bottom of this post). If you want to hear the audio, just click on the image (duration 135 sec). Neptune. Mixed technics on canvas 45 x 45 cm by … Continue reading Civilization and Cosmos. Part 10: Neptune
Civilization and Cosmos. Part 8: Saturn
In this post I want you to bring part 8 of my latest project (for those who missed out on part 1, more info at the bottom of this post). If you want to hear the audio, just click on the image (duration 110 sec). Saturn. Mixed technics on canvas 45 x 45 cm by … Continue reading Civilization and Cosmos. Part 8: Saturn
Civilization and Cosmos. Part 7: Jupiter
In this post I want you to bring part 7 of my latest project (for those who missed out on part 1, more info at the bottom of this post). If you want to hear the audio, just click on the image (duration 156 sec). Jupiter. Mixed technics on canvas 45 x 45 cm by … Continue reading Civilization and Cosmos. Part 7: Jupiter
Civilization and Cosmos. Part 5: Mars
In this post I want you to bring part 5 of my latest project (for those who missed out on part 1, more info at the bottom of this post). If you want to hear the audio, just click on the image (duration 115 sec). Mars. Mixed technics on canvas 45 x 45 cm by … Continue reading Civilization and Cosmos. Part 5: Mars
Civilization and Cosmos. Part 4: Terra
In this post I want you to bring part 4 of my latest project (for those who missed out on part 1, more info at the bottom of this post). If you want to hear the audio, just click on the image (duration 115 sec). Terra. Mixed technics on canvas 45 x 45 cm by … Continue reading Civilization and Cosmos. Part 4: Terra
Reading in the Dark
Reading in the Dark is a novel by Seamus Deane in 1996. The title of the novel is taken from a section in which the boy is alone and struggling to read in the dark set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a … Continue reading Reading in the Dark
The Da Vinci Trinity
Although Leonardo Da Vinci had no formal academic training, many historians and scholars regard him as the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man", an individual of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination." He is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived. He studied engineering, sculpting, painting, … Continue reading The Da Vinci Trinity
Contemporary Cryptomathicians.
For those who want to know more about the relation between Art and Mathematics.
The Complexity of Simplicity
“Being simple is the most complicated thing nowadays.” -Ramana Pemmaraju The principle of simplicity or parsimony—broadly, is the idea that simpler explanations of observations should be preferred to more complex ones—is conventionally attributed to William of Occam, after whom it is traditionally referred to as Occam's razor. This does not mean that there will be … Continue reading The Complexity of Simplicity
Audio Books: Listening vs Reading.
My main motivation to turn to audio books was that I’m spending so much time of the day staring at a screen, that in the evening my eyes are too tired to read any further.
The US Literary Universe.
Since US literature, as represented by the US Library of Congress, has the whole universe as a subject, one could assume that this system is also governed by the same mechanisms that it describes. In the following two paragraphs I would like to outline some analogies between what most people consider as two disciplines who … Continue reading The US Literary Universe.
Bots on the Social Media and in Literature
Bots can be extremely sophisticated such as (i) generating pseudo posts which look like human generated to interact with humans on a social network, (ii) reposting post, photographs or status of the others, and (iii) adding comments or likes to posts, (iv) building connections with other accounts.
Conspiracy Theories, Social Entropy and Literature.
We live in a time where conspiracy theories are rampant and slowly start to realize how this disinformation is contributing to a logarithmic growing degree of social entropy. There is a whole section of literature dedicated to it and I like to call it confabulated history books presented as nonfiction.
About Promotion Burnout.
Marketing is the bane of my existence as a writer. It distracts me from what I really want to be doing: writing. It forces me to enter into the uncivilized world of advertising, where strident ads claw their way into the consumer’s consciousness, convincing the public to buy what they don’t want, can’t use, but must have.
A Collage of First Lines from Novels.
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.[1] If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.[2] I’m pretty much f*cked. [3] No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences … Continue reading A Collage of First Lines from Novels.
The Maharajagar 