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Viraland Virus
01/05/2022 09:49
Viraland Virus
Amongst the English, homosexuality is associated with fairies. Much literature has been written on the subject, so it seems insulting to the fantasy genre. Edmund Spenser’s poem, ‘The Faerie Queene’ (1590-96), written for Queen Elizabeth I, for example, and Lord Dunsany’s...
Jesus is a Sinner to the Jews
24/04/2022 14:44
Jesus is a Sinner to the Jews
The Jewish ‘place of worship’ is a Synagogue, while ‘demagogue’ in the English language is the appeal to ordinary people that a persuasive orator has, that is, a Christian church is where sinners go to hear an oration, which has as its goal the conversion of the...
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12/04/2022 23:38
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Most writers recollect being told to struggle and starve. Being a starving writer struggling to survive is almost proverbial. So much so that, for the computer age, it’s the equivalent of a program, which as early as the eleventh century, when it was written of as ‘trance’ in 1027 by...
The Aliens Abort Terminal Computed
09/04/2022 07:17
The Aliens Abort Terminal Computed
When the United States of America ‘s astronaut became the North American Space Administration’s (NASA’s) first man on the moon , it was the highlight of the Apollo space program, ‘That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.’1 The landing of...
Ape Camps
05/04/2022 18:12
Ape Camps
Although the phenomenon of the concentration camp was familiar to most people from WWII (1939-45), during which the Chancellor of the 1933 democratically elected National Socialist (Nazi) Party of Germany, Adolf Hitler, had them built to disguise the pogroms mounted against the...
Ursula K. Le Guin and the Mindless Submyth
01/04/2022 05:59
Ursula K. Le Guin and the Mindless Submyth
In her article, 'Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction', writer and critic Ursula K. Le Guin opined that, if you look hard at the 'Blond Hero',1 he doesn't look back at you, he disappears. She condemned what she thought of as an insufficiency...
Eastern Schengen Zone
25/03/2022 14:52
Eastern Schengen Zone
Isten is the word for God in Hungarian, that is, magyarul, the language of the Magyar, as they call themselves, so for them, as a member state of the European Union since 2004, it was the Isten Schengen zone, while for the rest of Europe it was the Eastern Schengen...
Science Fiction with Women as Aliens
13/03/2022 13:49
Science Fiction with Women as Aliens
The concept of women as aliens in science fiction has a long history. Perhaps the most illustrative example in modern times is the US’ NBC TV two-part miniseries, V (May 1st-2nd, 1983), starring actress Jane Badler as Diana, supreme commander of the...
Vornan-19 and some Fags about Covid-19
07/01/2022 15:56
Vornan-19 and some Fags about Covid-19
The advent of Covid-19, the virus mutation causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), emerging in December 2019 at a Wuhan city hospital in Hubei Province, China, has something in common with Vornan-19, the central character of The Masks Of Time...
Voice and Unvoiced In English Language Teaching
07/11/2019 00:51
Voice and Unvoiced In English Language Teaching
When teaching ‘Presentation’, a form of EAP (English for Academic Purposes) offered by institutions to government clients, who want to ensure that their employees are able to present their point of view to English speaking foreigners, the ELT...
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