Emma Bovary is a resonance that cannot stabilize—a particle constructed from longing, fantasy, and cultural pressure, oscillating rapidly until it decays. She seeks a higher-energy state than provincial life can provide, but every attempt to excite her world collapses back into the same dull vacuum. Charles is a low-mass, low-interaction body, immune to her fluctuations; … Continue reading 64. Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
62. Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau conducts a long-term observational study in a self-selected low-energy environment, isolating his particle from the noisy collisions of society. Walden Pond becomes a quiet vacuum chamber where thought can be measured without interference. Thoreau seeks to minimize extraneous forces—economy, gossip, commerce—so he can detect subtler fields: honesty, purpose, ecological belonging. His experiment is both … Continue reading 62. Walden — Henry David Thoreau
61. Moby-Dick — Herman Melville
Ahab is a monopole—an impossible particle theorized but never observed, a singularity of obsession dragging the Pequod through turbulent moral spacetime. The white whale is the unmeasurable, a cosmological constant of myth whose mass shifts depending on the observer’s terror. Ishmael drifts between them as a neutrino-like witness: omnipresent, nearly massless, passing through catastrophe without … Continue reading 61. Moby-Dick — Herman Melville
The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and the Book of Split Ink (1)
Everyone who follows me, knows that I can become quiete eratic in my blogging when I get absorbed into the final phase of an ongoing project. So was it this time and finaly: the mouse birthed a mountain. The Chimeric Glyph System was brewing and coming to fruition over years on a subconscient level till, … Continue reading The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and the Book of Split Ink (1)
40. The Mwindo Epic (Nyanga, DRC)
Mwindo appears as a nonlinear soliton—a localized, robust excitation capable of traversing hostile terrains of kinship and spirit. Born with divine-tinged properties, he resists ordinary damping, like a particle stabilized by topological charge. His encounters with underworld figures and rival factions are scattering events that test the soliton’s integrity; his magical flute, pact-making, and invulnerability … Continue reading 40. The Mwindo Epic (Nyanga, DRC)
38. The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer’s pilgrims form a mixed ensemble of particles, each with distinct mass, charge, and spin: knights, millers, clerks, wives. Their journey to Canterbury is a slow-motion scattering experiment, allowing their stories to reveal internal structures. The narrative architecture resembles a medieval collider—pilgrims exchanging tales like photons, illuminating their values and contradictions. Social class behaves as … Continue reading 38. The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer
10. Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing) — Laozi (China)
The Daoist text describes a low-action algorithm: minimize forcings, align with natural flows, and the system self-organizes. Its advice acts like a dissipative operator removing excess energy and allowing emergent order. In SLM terms, the Dao is a prescription for constructing a nonintervening Higgs field: less deliberate action produces more sustainable identity mass by aligning … Continue reading 10. Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing) — Laozi (China)
9. Analects — Confucius (China)
The Analects present a prescriptive dynamics for social stability. Rituals and hierarchical roles are selection rules: perform them correctly and social coherence emerges. The Analects thus provide precise Lagrangian terms that penalize deviance and reward conformity, producing low-entropy social arrangements.A lean Realiton (N + D±) stabilized through ethical clarity. Dissonatons (D±) emerge in the friction … Continue reading 9. Analects — Confucius (China)
8. The Odyssey — Homer
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
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)
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 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 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.
Here Comes Everybody’s Karma (3)
Mighty was the first to don armor and claim a name: Wassail Booslaeugh of Riesengeborg. His heraldic crest, emblazoned in green with shimmering silver embellishments, displayed a fearsome, horned he-goat in pursuit. His shield was divided horizontally, with radiant archers drawn on a deep blue background. Huzzah for the husband wielding his hoe.Ho ho ho, … Continue reading Here Comes Everybody’s Karma (3)
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)
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be. Acrylic on canvas 40,6 x 40,6 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be By John Keats When I have #fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,Before high-piled books, in charactery,Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,Huge cloudy symbols of a high #romance,And think … Continue reading When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be. Acrylic on canvas 40,6 x 40,6 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
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
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.