The manner in which this change occurs is what caught my eye, because initially it looks so blatantly obvious that Takezo, as he was called then, is destined to be a brute samurai with excessive rage and aggressiveness that stays alive only because he’s too good with a weapon to die. H...
He’s very much in the long tradition of the knight errant or the ronin or the lone rider in westerns. He has a code and a quest and he blows into places with deep secrets and starts asking awkward questions that put him in harm’s way. I love those kinds of stories and always wan...
The three boys, as they grew up, were bred to the stern duties of fighting men, as was the custom of their class. Absalon, indeed, was destined for the church; but in a country so recently won from the old war gods, it was the church militant yet, and he wielded spear and sword...
are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins; all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects...
There are some common positive words that we often come across in our everyday lives. When we focus on positivity all day, every day, our life is sure to take a drastic change for the better. Following are some of the positive words that are frequently used by us in our day-to-day ...
Knight did not rise. He looked at a timepiece on the mantelshelf, then turned again to his letters, pointing to a chair. 'Well, I am glad you have come. I only returned to town yesterday; now, don't speak, Stephen, for ten minutes; I have just that time to the late post. At ...
Medieval Kabbalistic literature, especially from the last third of the thirteenth century onwards, was very much preoccupied with the notion of a lower-most Sefirah which was perceived by the Kabbalists as female in terms of gender, a notion commonly ref