11.03.2008 - Interpretation of dali48
In many novels Golding has revealed the dark side of the human... - when isolated individuals or small groups are forced into extreme... - His work is characterized by the... - of the 'wickedness of the human heart' - deep spiritual and ethical...
Demobilized in 1945, Golding returned to writing and... - with a dark view of European... - At the later recollection of his war... - he noticed that "man produces... - as a bee produces honey"...
Like Ambrose Bierce's "Event at Owl Creek Bridge", the protagonist imagines his... - and the fight against the sea and the...
The story (The forked tongue, 1995) played in ancient... - and was the life of the last Delphic oracle... - who predicted the emergence of the Roman... - and the decline of the Hellenistic...
Golding's view is pessimistic - human nature is impermanent and inherently... - So based the ideals of progress and... - on false premises in the 19th... (W. Golding, Pegasus Author's Calendar)
Sir William Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was an English writer. He was a novelist, poet, playwright and teacher. He is famous for his novel Lord ...
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Regarded as "one of the most famous ...
Pythia was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. There are more than 500 ..... The last recorded oracle was in 393 AD when by order of Emperor Theodosius I the temple was closed and never reopened. The Oracle ...
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dali48 and writing books and cycling and photographing etc...
see dali48 and warning of neo-fascism since 1989 and Climate Change since ca. 2000 and "Banking Crisis" 2008 and poor people and social diseases and speculation and homelessness and robots etc. - instead of UBI & Ecology - Uncontrolled capitalism produces evil as bees produce...
see dali48 and Climate Change and heat waves and dryness and burning and also floods and Hurricanes etc. - since ca. 2000 and despite Copenhagen 2009 etc. - instead of #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy & UBI etc...