There is a very known saying – that goes back to the Ancient times – that states that the people only need, in order to be happy, to have “bread and circus”.
Do you think this still applies today?
Weekly Free Association : The Tower
September 1, 2008 by
The eternal hourglass keeps on turning and from it’s sands emerge The Tower.
Symbolically the tower represents the axis of the world since it unites heaven and earth.
In the Bible, the first tower is the Tower of Babel – built out of human pride and fiercely destroyed by God. From this destruction came the plurality of languages which dispersed humanity. Indeed, since the fall of Adam and Eve never had humanity tried to build again the axis of the world and this first endeavor – being against God’s will – is fiercely fought against.
In Christianity specifically, the tower would always represent humans vanity and misfortune. Yet the lighthouse – which is a tower, emerging from the waves with a light on its top – would have a positive connotation since it’s light would guide the souls in the good direction.
It was only in the middle ages that towers would flourish in Europe since they would harbor the bells that would call in the population.
In China, the tower also has a positive connotation since wise men could better study the heavens. They would then serve as channels of good energy to the earth.
Now you take the floor, what do you associate with the tower?
Today’s Question by Aart Hilal
September 1, 2008 by
What are your views on piracy?
The ultimate goal of a writer is to be read. Money comes later.
I had an interesting experience in Russia a few years back. In 2001, I sold 10,000 hard copies. And everyone was puzzled. We came from zero, from 1000, to 10,000. And then the next year we were over 100,000.
I thought that this is fantastic. To give the reader the possibility of reading your books and choosing whether to buy it or not. From this idea sprang the idea of compiling all of the bit torrents files of my works in one place. I thus created a site called The Pirate Coelho : http://piratecoelho.wordpress.com/
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