The Author reached for his pen and began scribbling flickering blue sigils in mid-air, scratching out some forms and adding others, as if working out an equation in some dusty alien mathematical language, which was almost exactly what it was. However, the equation was geometric and three-dimensional in form, and closed on an empty space … Continue reading On New Year’s Day 005 – Working It Out
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On New Year’s Day 003 – The Pre-Title Sequence
The Author stepped out of a brightly lit antique elevator onto the London city sidewalk. He clicked the end of his pen and the elevator sank out of sight, leaving only the dingy concrete of a largely abandoned alleyway behind it. He glanced around quickly to make sure no one was watching him, and then … Continue reading On New Year’s Day 003 – The Pre-Title Sequence
On New Year’s Day 001 – Points of Departure
All is quiet on New Year's Day A world in white gets underway I want to be with you Be with you night and day Nothing changes on New Year's Day On New Year's Day ~ Adam Clayton/David Howell Evans, from New Years’s Day (U2 - War; 1983) Points of Departure Mona crammed her favourite … Continue reading On New Year’s Day 001 – Points of Departure
Save It For Later
Let me ask you something: If you were being lied to every day, by everyone you know, about every single thing you have ever thought or believed to be true, do you really think you’d know the difference? Do you really? Because, isn’t the point that you would never have known it to be any … Continue reading Save It For Later
Genius
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” ~ Carl Sagan … Continue reading Genius
