Word spread about this Squid not only in New York but throughout the entire United States. He was offered product endorsements and several minor movie roles all accorded to a self professed creature of alien descent. The New York Sanitation Department was rather taken aback about the employee that they had recently hired. The NewContinue reading “” Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 44 “The Founding of the United Mutations””
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“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 43 “Squid The Hipster Celebrity”
Squid found a cheap hotel in The Village. When he heard “village” he thought it might be a recreated Indian village. After a short rest he hit the clubs and bars in The Village. Word spread that this was the great Nicaraguan revolutionary. The local crowd had read of his exploits in the Village ChoiceContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 43 “Squid The Hipster Celebrity””
“Mutantism on the March”: Chapter 42 “Squid Hits the Big Apple”
Squid head up north from Costa Rica but he mistook the Hudson River for the St. Lawrence River and found himself in New York headquarters for so many corporations doing evil deeds in the underdeveloped world. Were all New Yorkers as evil as their corporations. He had time for yet another adventure. He did knowContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March”: Chapter 42 “Squid Hits the Big Apple””
“Mutantism on the March” Chapter 41 “Dr. Zodiac Reveals a Secret”
Montenez continued his conversation with Dr. Zodiac, “The Greek Gods really began unravelling after the construction of various European empires. They lost the ability to control civilization as they had done in earlier times and of course the Greeks falling under Ottoman rule didn’t help their state of mind. Remember the Berlin Conference of 1870Continue reading ““Mutantism on the March” Chapter 41 “Dr. Zodiac Reveals a Secret””
Poetry Break; “Ontario Disease Fascism”
Ontario Disease Fascism Yet another televised briefing by Premier Doug Fordand his group of well meaning “Party Members”dare we call them blackbooters?stripping civil liberties like peeling a bananafor the good of the provinceunderstandable perhaps due to an inadequately funded hospital systemresult of many political decisionsyou have taken my jobyou have taken away my rightContinue reading “Poetry Break; “Ontario Disease Fascism””
Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) “The Heptameron”: Love and the monarchy
“ ‘The reason is” said Dagoucin, ‘that in order to maintain peace in the state, consideration is given to the rank of families, the seniority of individuals and the provisions of the law, and not to man’s love and virtue, in order that the monarchy should not be undermined. Consequently, in marriages between social equalsContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) “The Heptameron”: Love and the monarchy”
Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Time for a “Free Trait Agreement?: A deal between introverts and extroverts?
A Free Trait Agreement acknowledges that we’ll each act of character some of the time-in exchange for being ourselves the rest of the time. It’s a Free Trait Agreement when a wife wants to go out every Saturday night and a husband who wants to relax work out a schedule: half the time we’ll goContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Time for a “Free Trait Agreement?: A deal between introverts and extroverts?”
Passage of The Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”: More on Love
“ ‘ I believe” said Nomerfide, ‘ that if one loves perfectly. With a love rooted in God’s commandments, then one will not experience humiliation or dishonour, provided one does not go astray and fall from the perfection of one’s love. For the glory of loving truly knows no shame. And although her body wasContinue reading “Passage of The Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”: More on Love”
“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 40 “The Greek Gods Descend into Irrelevance”
The jolt of landing in the Zortixian spacecraft woke the napping of Montenez. Back home to the island of Samos in Greece. Back home to humanity as squalid as it may be. The month of May saw a light crowd of tourists but Montenez knew that would change as the Northern “Palefaces” as his NorthContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 40 “The Greek Gods Descend into Irrelevance””
Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”: More on love
“I would argue that a man who is deeply in love does not commit a sin, or only commits a venial sin, whatever he does. Because I’m certain that if he is in the grip of perfect love, he will not hear the voice of reason, either in his heart or his understanding. And, ifContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”: More on love”
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