The Mean Machine
This strange and disturbingly prophetic poetic text Mean Machine has managed to fly under the radar for 48 years. It should be famous and celebrated for being visionary and ahead of its time.It comes from a musical group that called…
Novels and Short Stories by Marco Hanuman
The collection of short stories and the novels can all be bought on all major book stores such as Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Rakuten Kobo, Apple Books, Scribd, Tolino, OverDrive, Biblioteca, Baker & Tailor, Odillo, Vivlio, Borrow Box, Smashwords, Palace…
We live in uglyness longing for beauty
One sometimes wonders how architects have been able to overlook that people – not just a little but to that extent! – prefer and search for places, squares and buildings that are beautiful and not the concrete modernist box environments…
Business HaraKiri
Let’s try something new today.Usually, you skip intermediate calculations in a writing process.Notes and ideas are stepping stones to something else, and then they are deleted.The title may well be a working title and be changed later, but today we…
The power of play
Some years ago I was walking the Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne, which is the High Route of the Pyrennees. It is a path that crosses the highest passes of the mountain chain from the Mediterranian to the Atlantic Ocean more or…
Egypt – travel letter from an ancient hi-tech culture
One of the most interesting, but at the same time one of the most dubious sciences is: Egyptology.Some even go so far as to say that it is not science at all. It’s relatively easy to say why it’s one of…
The World Game part 3 – reality in stasis
The subject is the strangest and – at least for the undersigned thinking, feeling and writing person – the most difficult to understand and therefore the most difficult to convey. On the other hand, we have already been out of…
The hidden meaning of fairy tales
Its for children! For children, you say. We’ll see about that. We have most of our adventures for children from sources in the early 1800s. In particular, the Brothers Grimm, who were not only children’s book authors but competent historians,…
Travel letter with mafia and mummies
This is travel letter no. 3 in the series. From the Egypt of ancient hi-tech culture up to Romania meeting up with historical vampires and bearded men on horseback, we now move eastwards in the Mediteranian to meet the place…
Life, Death and The Music
There is nothing more original than life itself.So what is the best way to celebrate life?To give something original back to life.Wayne Shorter I think time is only one moment. That’s all the time there is.So yesterday, today and tomorrow…
Beauty in exile
You just have to take a walk in the city – or even worse: drive into the city via various access roads to experience a pronounced lack of beauty. One has to close one’s eyes to all esthetics and move…
In the beginning was sound
This is an examination of the secrets behind frequencies seen in a musical perspective. Let’s start with a postulate. The six tones in the scale have a particularly universal frequency. This frequency is not relative, but absolute.
Notes on Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)The core of his philosophy of life: Man is not defined by what he is, but by what he does. Read with the quote in the picture, it means that ignorant people with power are the…
40 small-big thoughts in cinemascope
With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stoneeach block cut smooth and well fittingthat design might cover their face,with usurahath no man a painted paradise on his church wallharpes et luzor where virgin receiveth messageand halo projects…
Chivalry – truth and nothingness
We live in times where universal human values and concepts able to describe them are vanishing. Often they seem lost or so changed in their core, that they are no longer adequate. In some cases values and concepts are so exposed to scorn, censorship, condemnation or attacked…
