Nicaragua was embroiled in a fiendish mess. Detroit manufactured Cadillac’s whizzed by the begging hordes occasionally tossing a few worthless coins not for charitable purposes but rather for a laugh at these dirty and rank smelling masses. Charity was big business for Hartford Connecticut based Green Cross. A leaked report by a team of investigativeContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 37 “Green Cross Public Relations vs. Reality””
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Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”: Love
“Those of you how quickly the fire of love spreads when it starts to smoulder in the heart and in the imagination will understand that once Love enters two such perfect subjects, he never stops until he has rendered them obedient to his commands, until indeed he has filled them so full of his clearContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”: Love”
“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 36 “Business as Usual in Nicaragua”
Bertie Foonbean, the mutant child of Zeus and Aphrodite, was becoming an increasing embarrassment to the Greek Gods who of course viewed themselves as perfection. Friends of the Greek Gods were increasingly curious as why no invitation for a birth party had been sent out by the Greek Gods in weeks. If only they couldContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 36 “Business as Usual in Nicaragua””
“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 35 “Zorollia Sparks its Demise”
The ragged remnants of the Opposite Party in Zorollia hijacked a Zortixian Spaceline flight from Zortixia City to the Zortixian city of Kloip. The Opposite Party hijackers landed the plane in the Zorollian province of Idididi ruled by the treacherous Kampoola who had distinguished himself through idiotic and cannibalistic acts. At one time he hadContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 35 “Zorollia Sparks its Demise””
Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”
“’Quite!’ said Longarine. “I’m sure that what you say is true. The fact is that every man who’s ever wanted to be my devoted servant has always started by declaring that my life, my welfare and my honour were all he truly desired. But in the end it’s only their own interests that count, onlyContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron””
Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Stimulation
“Once you understand introversion and extroversion as preferences for certain levels of stimulation, you can begin consciously trying to situate yourself in environments favourable to your personality-neither overstimulating nor understimulating, neither boring or anxiety-making. You can organize your life in terms of what personality psychologists call “optimal levels of arousal” and what I call “sweetContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Stimulation”
“Mutantism on the March”: Chapter 34 “Zorollia Raises its Ugly Head”
Montenez heard the news of the slug people revolt and the role of Jiber Jr. in that fiasco while he was on his voyage back to Earth. Earth was having enough problems without a power obsessed spaceman running amok. Whatever Jiber Jr. had in mind for Earth would certainly lead to no good. It struckContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March”: Chapter 34 “Zorollia Raises its Ugly Head””
Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) “The Heptameron”
“What I mean Hircan is this. If love is based on a woman’s, charm and favours, and if our aim is merely pleasure, ambition or profit, then such a love can never last. For if the whole foundation on which our love is based should collapse then love will fly from us and there willContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) “The Heptameron””
“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 33 “Does Frizzy the Smicket Boy Prevail? “
Frizzy the Smicket Boy head of the Zortixian Defence Academy was like a hound on the scent of an escaped convict as he intensified the search for Jiber Jr. mastermind of the doomed slug people uprising and possibly even the leader of the Triple Complex Towers attack. Frizzy assembled a crack team of detectives inContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 33 “Does Frizzy the Smicket Boy Prevail? “”
“Mutantism on The March”: Chapter 32 “Jiber Jr. Proves Troublesome”
The Jiber when he had been in power in Zortixia had been friendly with the slug people hoping one day to use them as a conquering army but the slug people were of simple minds and never understood military politics. Well they may have been slow but their memory of the savagery shown them byContinue reading ““Mutantism on The March”: Chapter 32 “Jiber Jr. Proves Troublesome””
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