Stories Before a Goodnight Kiss

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I can't take it anymore with these kind of people! I fear they are almost everywhere. I'm sure you have met one of these pathetic lunatics. Let me explain, please. You try to construct a healthy, philosophical discussion with someone (who is in emotional segregation with every living thing but he/she doesn't know it yet, and of course neither do you) and you lay down some thoughts hoping and expecting to build a solid foundation for the discussion. And then it comes; it comes so fast you don't have time to react. You can't respond because you are in shock: “How dare you talking about these kind of things, when there are people in Africa starving to death?”. It seems that this extreme acts like a virus. (In a conversation when someone argues with extreme examples it is because they don't know how to build the foundation for a healthy argument, so they try to destroy, infect and demolish the discussion with the lowest form of a show-off.) I take the time to clea

I am in a room with lots of doors and no windows. I open a door (any door, it doesn't matter which one) and I see a long corridor with... more doors. I smile meaningfully and I walk calmly toward a new door. I turn the doorknob and I enter... I love looking at things which are inside of things. It all depends of course on the choice of the medium: a painting within a painting, a movie within a movie, a story within a story, a dream within a dream. When I see something within something else I immediately get the illusion that it has energy in it, as if it became alive. “ But I loved Narcissus because, as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored. ” ~ Oscar Wilde If I dyed the mane of a lion blue and presented it as art what would it happen? Animal protection organizations (and my conscience) would accuse me of animal cruelty (and poor taste). And they would be right. But if a character in a story dyes the mane of a l

Every Man and Every Woman is a Star ~ Aleister Crowley You are a star, traveling through space. You create your very own Universe, thus pulled by the Gravity of your World, you experience a continuous process of ordeals. When the initiation ends you get into orbit. Then, you travel in circles... We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time ~ T. S. Eliot Xenios Theocharous

The artwork on the wall, shown in the trailer . I like some of it. As ever, inspiration precedes craft. Stories Before a Goodnight Kiss The epitome of how a dream-scape should be. Art by vmaximus.deviantart.com Mysteries of the Mind I like the simplicity of it. Brushes by fidgetresources.deviantart.com Behind the Curtain... ... you'll find a pierrot Practical Miracles Achieve Miracles by being: - Religious or - A Hero or - Superstitious or - A Brute or - A Gentleman Amaze your Friends Amaze your friends the way Harry did. Secrets of All Kinds That's a promise I tend to keep. Marvelous & Scary Stories Another promise I'm inclined to keep. The marvelous art is by the scary Virgil Finlay Cure of Vulgarities step 1: admit that you are a Vulgar step 2: convert g to c step3: convert r to n There! Now you are Vulcan, the god of fire. Easy stuff! Original Painting: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon on the Imperial Throne , 1806 Climb that Ladder! I don&

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