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Thoughts Beyond The Armida Trilogy–Symbols Matter .01

An early human scratched this hashtag pattern into a red ochre stone at Blombos Cave in South Africa. It is estimated to be about 100,000 years old. Source: Science.org Can you imagine the first symbol a hominid made about 100,000 years ago? It appears to have been a hashtag? What could it have been like…

Thoughts Beyond The Armida Trilogy–“Aryan” Nazis

Did you know that the term “Nazi” (short for “Nationalsozialist”) was considered derisory even when the Nazi Party grew out of smaller political groups with a nationalist orientation that formed in the last years of World War I? Truly, and the three novels of the Armida Trilogy did not shy away from making reference to their…

Tasso’s GERUSALEMME LIBERATA and “Armida”

Imagine a protagonist named Armida inspired 18 operas entitled “Armida” and their composers, ranging from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Most operas focus on the character of said name while others focus on her relationship with the Crusader knight named Rinaldo. There was even a film and a ballet, not to mention many paintings.…

Book Two – Choir of Cloistered Canaries

A retiring CDC epidemiologist reunites with her estranged mother and is swept from a secretive lab in North Carolina to Rome, where science, mythology, and a surprising papal alliance ignite a transnational fight for environmental justice and moral stewardship. Choir of Cloistered Canaries – Book Two (2020) is a thought-provoking, multi-layered novel that fuses epidemiology…

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