Trivial Pursuits Recently I’ve been playing a little mental game around the...
However, let’s start at the beginning…. These are vampire novels and Yarbro’s vampire is based on a historical figure of the 18th century, the Comte de Saint-Germain.
This is Nagendra’s first mystery, set in Bangalore in 1921. It is set in South India, not Bombay or Calcutta, which makes it unique in my experience.
This book focuses on Lady Byron (1792-1860), her daughter, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, and the ways they were affected by Lord Byron..
2 weeks ago to the day I had been taking a deep dive into the world of "AI Art" thanks to "Midjourney", a subscription-based online AI (for "Artificial Intelligence") art generator that builds images from text prompts - an early result is the featured image of this post - having seen interesting results online, before my investigations were rudely interrupted by a bout of COVID...
Berlin compares Tolstoy with Maistre, a post-French Revolution, ultramontane Catholic, and extremely conservative thinker who thought Europe should return to the blind Catholicism and authoritarianism of the Dark Ages. He was a hedgehog.
Ancient History...
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Review: Brendan McCarthy, comic strip artist and co-creator of “Mad Max – Fury Road” has done a lot since I first blogged...