Medieval poetry, in spite of its literary images, was in truth quite pathetic in describing a woman. Naturally, all women were ‘fair beauties’, but, like in painting, poetry rarely went mu...
When I first came to England four years ago in mid-July, it’s been raining cats and dogs for two long weeks. It was very cold, plus I didn’t take any sweater with me and, being an incorrig...
http://www.therubaiyat.com/ Complete Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. I know some verses relatively well in Russian, but haven’t found them in the English translation yet. One of my favourite is this (...
… Listen (again!) A new study reveals that if you’re a classical music fan, you will have tried cannabis. I wonder if this may be the case of the so-called false correlation? This is what ...
Malgré ma barbe, je ne m’appelle pas Karl Marx! – Despite my beard, my name isn’t Karl Marx! (César) Thanks for reading and visiting! You can connect with me on Google+ @ https://plu...
Blessed be the times when medieval monks simply ‘continued’ the chronicles and annalles that had been started by other monks. Today the family of the monk who started the chronicle could v...
[This post is dedicated to the playwright from Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, who was gifted, but liked listening to The Monkees’ I’m a Believer]. … Listen Psychologists have f...
Perhaps unwittingly, today’s Metro (www.metro.co.uk) was full of offbeat stories. This is just a short sample of what was intended to attract today’s readers’ attention (among other ...