‘The Sublimes’ by Yuri Mamleev, a Russian edition cover, click to get the book in Russian
Almost half a century ago, in 1966, a book was published unofficially via samizdat in the Soviet Russia. A book that both terrified and dazzled the literary establishment.… Read the rest
The Spy’s Funeral, by Hablot Knight Browne, Phiz (an illustration to Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”, London, Wordsworth Classics, 1999, scanned by Robert Ferrieux)
Do you think real literature is becoming obsolete? Here’s what I think about it.… Read the rest
DNA helix, a cartoon by Jerome Walker, via Wikimedia Commons
Our civilisation is obsessed with youth and beauty. Face is sometimes called the mirror of our soul and we all want to keep this mirror clean, smooth and shiny. And this is what beauty industries are focused on. … Read the rest
Old Hindu Man in contemplation By James Rattray, via Wikimedia Commons
Allegory of Immortality, by Giulio Romano, ca.1540.
The Immortality of the human soul is endlessly debatable until at least we find out what a soul is. The Immortality of the human body is a subject we can now talk about, thanks to the progress in biology.… Read the rest
When I was a child this was the question I asked myself every often, but others seemed to be uninterested in it. Adults and other kids would just reply to me: “I don’t know”. I thought it was some kind of puzzle.… Read the rest
The Dance of Death by Michael Wolgemut (1493)
Death is a part of us. We are programmed to die; this program on the level of our organism is called phenoptosis (in biological terms). Each of our cells contains the whole molecular machinery for programmed cell suicide scientifically called apoptosis.… Read the rest