We’re underground with filmmaker Werner Herzog. His helmet lamp is illuminating 32,000 year-old cave drawings. To Herzog, these animal depictions are a milestone in the ascent of man. They mark—and I quote—“the awakening of the human soul”. Sounds terrific. But wait a minute. The S-word—what does it mean? Herzog compares the “modern human soul” [...]
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And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I’ll say it clear, I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain… To say I’m not a fan of Frank Sinatra is an understatement. And so it irks me to think that people might credit him with having written this [...]
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I’d rather you didn’t waste your time reading this post. Rather, save yourself for: http://www.breakarule.com/blog/author/admin/ That’s right, MOL goes on hold to alert you to the adventures of Rick Lewis. Yes, the same character we met on board my previous post , the one who advocates “leaning into our own unknown”. Well, in the last [...]
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Last week I left you with a ship hanging precariously over the edge of the known world. On board were the mavericks Herman Melville and Helen Keller. Joining them is the American writer and iconoclast, Henry Miller: “One’s destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.” Now he tells us! With [...]
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Believing the world to be flat, long-ago people must have feared falling off the edge. Imagine the courage it required to embark on a voyage toward the unknown. Yet men did. It’s a paradox—we want to live—yet we put life at risk to live better. Listen to Herman Melville: “As for me, I am tormented [...]
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So, you’re at a party. Naturally, people are rattling on about “the Oscars”, everybody a showbiz pundit. O the “insufferable inanity,” as one Globe and Mail columnist has so predictably put it. You reckon that this ritualistic debriefing is no less insufferable, and our trash-talk nothing but fodder for it. For the gilded monster! You [...]
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Story Structure To Die For is essential reading for anyone who has ever wondered why readers read and why writers
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A phone call out of the blue sends ROXY on a mercy mission to a Greek island. Her estranged grandfather is dying. When her mother refuses
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The Flight of the Patriot
Yadi Sharifirad, Iranian Top Gun, national hero, and poster boy for the military forces of the Islamic Regime, thought his record spoke for itself. But he underestimated Ayatollah Khomeini’s antipathy for American-trained fighter pilots—all but a few were executed. Sharifi’s luck ran out when one fine day ...more
