Life
Critical Encounters By Bernardo H. Motta A young adventurer traveled around the world in search for enlightenment. After a few years, he went to a mountain in the Himalayans following the directions he received from an ascetic in Goa, India. According to the ascetic, the wisest man on Earth was a Zen Master who [...]
Hall of Winds II (Or BC Prometheus)
Critical Encounters By Bernardo H. Motta “Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.” *”Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus,” Chapter 20, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. “You are my creator, but I am your master,” the creature said to Victor Frankenstein near the end of Mary Shelley’s book “Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus,” when Victor declines his request [...]
Hall of Winds
Critical Encounters By Bernardo H. Motta “It was a bold question, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.” *”Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus,” chapter 4, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [...]
Hate
Critical Encounters By Bernardo H. Motta Ombudsman “Fitti nel limo, dicon: ‘Tristi fummo ne l’aere dolce che dal sol s’allegra, portando dentro accidioso fummo: or ci attristiam ne la belletta negra’. Quest’inno si gorgoglian ne la strozza, che’ dir nol posson con parola integra.” “Fixed in the mire they say, ‘We sullen were In the [...]
