Showing posts with label failure of science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label failure of science. Show all posts

Monday, 5 September 2011

too much boredom with the goddess



library read julian copes megalithic european   well researched well travelled  and phoots of each megalolith illustrated however each phoot was runed by  the presence of a sinster loking  middle aged hippy who wandered into virtually every shot    but then i realised it was the author of the book
periodic table shoes i know little of chemistry  a usual popular science travel book  telling the usual stories about gold , plutonium , calcium  cadmuim cobalt mercury et al
 the life  and death of palnet earth    first thr plants die, then the oceans boil the sun becames a red gain consuming the inner palnets then ends up a cold cinder just as the andromeda galaxy collides with ther milky way six billion years hence   six billion years i thought it said six million years hence  at first -getting  worried
the voyages of the zen brothers  who discovered the faroe islands, the shetlands and the orkneys  in the late 14th century    and  were rewritten post columbus as discovers of america  i thought it was thomas of oxford a franciscan monk who discovered america via greenland in 1360 perhaps he was a literacy hoax too

i have not written any poetry for months   you can just have so much imagining of thr goddess  or pondering the night sky 

Monday, 4 July 2011

egyptian mysteries

library read ethan gage novel napoleons pyramids fast moving tough guy meets european villain and exotic women based around napoleons 1798 expedition to egypt it involved lost pyramid treasure chambers and guardians from a still surviving ancient egyptian masonic Isis cult
ends with hero floating off in balloon first of series if anyone is interested
Siege by jack hight "who has MA and is doing his doctorate" one of the many novels about the 1453 siege of constantinople, read like any other medieval war novel even including a typical heroric commander and his band of medival men at arms stereotypes with counter plot of everyday life in the harem and fictional sultana conspiracies

Hights siege novel reminded me of my early byzantine novel "muscovy Kill" about the sultan despatching an assassin to moscow to assasinate princess Zoe Palaiologina before she marries grand duke Ivan III
a little too like in characterisation and plot even more that muscovy kill was created when I was ten years old and I had forgotten all about it until I read Hight!

norse myth a guide, updated version in modern english of the prose and poetic eddas never really realised that the norse gods spent most of their time on morose journeys
age of wonder by richard holmes a good history of late 18th century scientists from ballooning to frankenstein truly great scientists all fortunate to be contemporaries , something that cannot be said about todays science lacking in great science
wrote two mystical poems one beginning either God is there or not God who said that first ?