Author Archives: KAmbroziak

INSIDE MAN A cop has to talk down a bank robber after the criminal’s perfect heist spirals into a hostage situation. THE HANGOVER A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, … Continue reading →

The poetry of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) is considered the high point of Chinese poetry. Every educated Chinese during the Tang Dynasty was expected to be able to dash off a poem with grace, or at least technical competence. The poetry served … Continue reading →

“DJJ 1 Catacombes de Paris” by Djtox The Catacombs of Paris Visiting the tombs

Face of Mae West (1935) by Salvador Dali History Painting (1626) by Rembrandt

From Shakespeare’s As You Like It All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. … Continue reading →

The Ship by Salvador Dali Hell (1485) by Hans Memling

Mirage by Dali The Great Day of His Wrath (1851) by John Martin Stephanie Desouza’s Presentation

Charlene’s Work of Art Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) by Dali Renoir’s Image

From an edition of Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel.   In the seventh canto of the Inferno, when the Pilgrim asks his guide who is Fortune and “what is she like / who holds … Continue reading →

A Tale from the Decameron (1916) by John William Waterhouse From Wikipedia on The Decameron’s frame story: In Italy during the time of the Black Death, a group of seven young women and three young men flee from plague-ridden Florence to a deserted villa … Continue reading →