Motto: “Teachers are more essential than anything else, men who can give the young the ability to judge and distinguish, who serve them as examples of the honoring of truth,…
“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince) “We need something new,”…
“Everything happens for a purpose. Some souls are supposed to leave life quick. There’s a lesson in it for them.” (Bethany Campbell, Hear No Evil) The man was looking down at…
By Voicu Mihnea Simandan, Anurun Singkamanun and Sakulratn Teptarakulkarn The neighborhood was as gloomy as any other November evening in Transylvania. The three of them had been roaming up and…
by Voicu Mihnea Simandan “There was too much of this emptiness, and this was not where I wanted to be.” (Paul Theroux, My Other Life) It is said in folklore…
by Voicu Mihnea Simandan “What is finer than flying?” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit) When I was young I used to spend a lot of time in my grandparents’ apartment, while…
by Voicu Mihnea Simandan “The books in a person’s house reveal an enormous amount of what’s going on in his head.” (Paul Theroux, My Other Life) It was the room…
by Voicu Mihnea Simandan “History’s third dimension is always fiction.” (Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi – The Glass Bead Game) When 100,000 years ago Milankovitch published in the 1930s his hypothesis…