Category: Footnotes
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Krotas Desires
Time, the one equation Once Solved Whose proof and formula Escape with the executer. Unless… Unless… We solve the right one! Then, with the gates of time pried open Through, Krotas walks into the ageless — With Plans to bring The Man his Justice. Resurrect Plato. Build the Republic. Create him perfect without this flesh.…
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Footnotes
*”Pomp and Circumstance” from Act III, Scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Othello: “Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th’ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!” Tiresias – First Tiresias was a character of ancient Greece. He came upon two mystical snakes mating and they transformed Tiresias into a…
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Cast of Characters
The Makars – Poets, painters, songwriters, storytellers and journalists. In the beginning of this story, this society is heavily driven and influenced by the Makars. Every wedding, funeral, birth, graduation and life event was canonized by the poets, musicians and storytellers. The arts were fundamental to the fabric of the culture and they were held…
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Pomp and Circumstance
Act III, Scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Othello: Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th’ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
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Plato Bans The Bard
As Plato would have it (though I can’t help but point out that science alone turns dirt under the foundations of his world view), the poet is to be exiled from the perfect society. As a young man, I would sit in the canyon and read The Republic in the cool breeze of the summer…