This powerful poem narrates the fateful return of Count Lara to the British Isles after spending years abroad traveling the orient. Returning to his patrimony with a retinue consisting of one foreign-born page, Count Lara resumes the management of his landed estates. Lara's first efforts are crowned with success: only to be undermined by the jealousy and envy of his his peers. After a successful duel to defend his honour, the count becomes inexorably caught up in local blood-feuds; which quickly escalate to open warfare between his own followers and the private armies of his enemies. - Count Lara remains a bold and skillful leader: is he strong enough to triumph yet over adverse fortune? - And what is the secret of his mysterious foreign page: who left kindred and homeland behind in order to follow Count Lara to the uttermost ends of the earth? (Introduction by Godsend)...

Poetry

volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Business by Ambrose Bierce. This was the weekly poetry project for August 2nd, 2009.

Satire, Poetry

NonNovel is indeed a novel of drawer, carried year after year in the bottomless sack of the exile. This fierce parabola about totalitarianism, about alienation, guilty obedience and lie, opportunism, cruelty, violence, monstrosity, written in a strong tensioned and lacking bashfulness style, situates Florentin Smarandache closer by Orwell, Konwicki, Koestler, Baconsky, and marks a new dimension of the Paradoxism....

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WARNING!: 5 Mister Editor (a letter arrived at the editorial office): 6 I: 7 Dedication: 10 The Adventures of Hon Hyn: 11 Happenings from Wodania: 23 II: 26 About patriotism: 28 The royal feast: 29 The press: 30 Post Office: 31 The State control: 32 Non-values’ Epoch: 36 Pluralism: 43 A leader not like anyone else: 45 Invisible barriers: 46 The graduates’ allocation: 49 The lunatic asylum: 50 The abolishing of the difference between man and animal: 56 III: 59 The Earthquake: 60 Modern gallinacean: 62 The crop of pea: 63 The peasantry: 64 The intellectuality: 66 A little meditation does not hurt: 67 The Fonfoist Party: 69 An unsafe life was provided to us: 70 A certain kind of speech: 72 The Fonfoist Society: 83 “We will live here in abundance”: 87 The multilateral development of personality: 93 The Police and the Revolution: 95 Imposing buildings of prisons: 97 Football: 99 Public genuflection: 100 The contemporary history: 102 Hon Hyn’s visit to Paris: 103 The National Museum: 104 The Management of the Economical Systems: 105 A few notions of psychology: 106 (editor’s note): 109 The wise po...

Etymologically, aphorism + floral = aph(L)orism, which is a short reflection written on a floral design, or a short poetry accompanied by an artistic background. They are colorful contemplations. Maximus in minimis (Lat.) means very much in very little [max in min], or condensed thought, or ideating essence. They are actually maxims, adages, sayings mostly in one line (uni-stich) with a title, as a metaphoric statement, a breathing momentum that oils our soul....

Nonchalantly : The wind with its mantle steps lightly. Skin Condition : The Sun has spots too. At what time? When it rains, God cries. Atmosphere : Blue, as the sky dirtied by clouds. Bright : A balcony full of Sun. Natural disaster : The swans look drunk on the fetid lake. Surprisingly : The crow is a beautiful black. Elegant woman : A bird high on her legs. Most powerful chess piece : You are a queen but only in the dark. Medicinal plant : You’re a flower but amongst weeds. Force that attracts food : The stomach’s gravitation pulls me to food....

Passion.......................................................................23 Worthless.....................................................................23 Tired of you....................................................................23 Tittle-tattle....................................................................23 Talk is cheep...................................................................24 Give the man what he doesn’t have.................................................24 Novel for (non) writers...........................................................24 Desolate......................................................................24 Did I have the pleasure...........................................................24 Sloppy work....................................................................25 Despicable.....................................................................25 Wanted.......................................................................25 Talking in vain..................................................................25 Use caplets.....................................................