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The writing goes on, in case you are wondering.The first one third has gone out to beta readers, and two people (I love you both) have returned with feedback. The next one third is just about ready for beta reading … Continue reading
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So far the photos have been of the square levels. Then you come to the top levels, the round ones, and here you find the stupa. In each of these, there is – or was – a statue of Buddha. … Continue reading
As you walk around any of the square levels of the structure, the walls on either side are carved like this. Many of these portray incidents in the life a Buddha. As each level is smaller than the one below, … Continue reading
Imagine it for a moment.Something built around 800 A.D., a Buddhist monument.Six square levels topped by three round ones. You can walk around at each level.You approach the first level walking up steps (picture 1.) 2,672 carved stone relief panels … Continue reading
The main reason I went to Yogyakarta was to see the ruins of Borobadur.And the reasons it is such a wonderful place to go is scene in the first few photos below. Gunung Merapi. Mount Merapi. Volcano. Which I first … Continue reading
This is about a review I read where I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It is very funny, almost unbelievable, and yet it is always sad to see prejudice and bigotry search for scientific backing and produce idiocy … Continue reading
Over at the Locus Blog, from Gary K. Wolfe, are some interesting figures. In 1954, when I was nine years old, there were approximately 74 science fiction titles published. Locus reports 1,669 titles (including fantasy, horror, etc.) for 2008 – … Continue reading
I have just the right people for you: Pony vs Tiger.And here they are… Marchelle and Nashii Yes, you never know what you are going to get on this blog and today you have an unashamed advert from a proud … Continue reading
One of the keys on my keyboard won’t work. So I can no longer talk about Meico, or eciting stuff, or rays.Things are now dear, not epensive. enophobia is out of bounds anyway, and too bad about the non-Y chromosome … Continue reading
I have just read Toni Morrison’s “A Mercy“. A wonderful book, gorgeously rich writing, fascinating characters in a magnificent but savage setting of uncertainty, disease, servitude, the constant haunting of death standing at the shoulder. A nice touch of irony … Continue reading