Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter

Laura is a dissatisfied housewife who realizes that an essential element is missing. Laura, it must be noted, is the name of the mysterious woman who was the subject of so many of Petrarch’s sonnets. Hence, she must not be understood as a contemporary woman eager for sexual experiences, although she is never quite sure of what is missing in her life. Continue reading

Heliocentrism Redux

Heliocentrism Redux

The Sun is not at the geometric center of any planet’s orbit, but rather approximately at one focus of the elliptical orbit. Furthermore, to the extent that a planet’s mass cannot be neglected in comparison to the Sun’s mass, the center of gravity of the Solar System is displaced slightly away from the center of the Sun. Continue reading

The Hour of the Morning Star

The Hour of the Morning Star

I am Matter although I go by many names: death, sleep, turmoil, night, darkness, void, abyss, silence. I was there at the primeval chaos.  From nothing, I created everything, then the rhythm of night and day, the dark and the bright. Yet the Silence remained. There was no experience, no one hears the sounds. Just the rhythm of inhalation and exhalation. Continue reading

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