Once Upon A Tower She was called a Femme Fatale, which was a remarkably exact, if misleading, description. She did not seduce men. She killed them. She also happened to be the princess's lady-in-waiting, another exactly deceptive title. She was a lady and she waited. Mostly in the shadows, for danger to appear.In other words, Katherine was a guard on stiletto heels - if you believe at least that to be less than literal in meaning, you are wrong. For there was nothing metaphorical whatsoever in Katherine. Her hair really was as dark as a raven's plumage, her eyes did shine like stars and her lips were honey-sweet (possibly from the honey she was fond of eatin
A Thought on God and Reason Today in my class on the History of Emotions, if it is indeed called that (I keep forgetting the titles of classes), a colleague of mine said that science proved that there was no soul, it was all just biology and chemistry and stuff.Later on, I was reading Eliezer Yudkowsky's blog entry on mysterious answers to mysterious questions and the one on Uncritical Supercriticality.I'll make my position clear to everybody here: I don't believe in any particular religion. Christianity always feels a bit false to me and I don't know enough about Buddhism to figure out where I stand on it. And I think as religions go, those two are pretty much on o