His name was Elisha ben ("son of") Abuya. He’s been called “the Jewish Faust”; and when the 19th-century writer Max Letteris translated Goethe's Faust into Hebrew, he gave his adaptation the title "Ben Abuya." The ancient rabbis of the Talmud, who spoke with fascinated horror of their colleague … [Read more...]
Lost Horizon, Deadly Paradise – Quaternity Tales (Part 3)
"Conway went to the balcony and gazed at the dazzling plume of Karakal; the moon was riding high in a waveless ocean. ... He was only partly unhappy, but he was infinitely and rather sadly perplexed. He did not know whether he had been mad and was now sane, or had been sane for a time and was now … [Read more...]
Lost Horizon, Deadly Paradise – Quaternity Tales (Part 2)
(Continued from last week's post:) The secret of Shangri-La is this: Living there, you age with preternatural slowness. Unlike in the archetypal paradise of Eden (at least according to some interpretations), you're not exactly immortal. Sooner or later you're going to grow old and die. But … [Read more...]
Lost Horizon, Deadly Paradise – Quaternity Tales (Part 1)
"Four entered Paradise. One looked and died; one looked and went mad; one mutilated the young plants; one entered safely and came out safely." No, this isn't a plot summary for James Hilton's wildly popular novel Lost Horizon, turned by Frank Capra into a somewhat less popular film. It's the … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – What Do They Look Like?
No, I'm not talking about the UFO aliens. I'm talking about the main characters in Outtakes of a UFO Investigator--Danny Shapiro, his mother Anna, his father Leon. For those of who you haven't seen my earlier Outtakes posts, I've been posting PDFs of stories that were originally part of my novel … [Read more...]
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