"Return of the Jedi" poster from Hungary. Artwork by Tibor Helényi.

"The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing." - John 6:63

Watch my favourite scene from the film FIGHT CLUB:

“Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.” — John Coltrane

Children of Men (2006) may have flopped at the box office, but time has revealed it as a sci-fi masterpiece. Haunting, urgent, and more relevant with every passing year.

“Modern society flatters men into weakness by promising ease; but a man who accepts ease as his master soon finds he has no strength left to resist anything at all. Comfort is the chief corrupter of the age.” — Hilaire Belloc

December headline from 25 years ago

Kubrick didn’t do coincidences.

"Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them they are free." — Irving Layton

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One of the best decisions ever made by Tolkien

"You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream." -- David Lynch

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Strands of a spider web--amazing electron microscope image (by Dr Martín Ramírez). Hidden wonders.

Download a free .PDF or .EPUB of THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by qntm:

Still one of the strongest and most evocative science fiction images ever created (1927)

Listen to a brief video essay about the philosophical notions behind GHOST IN THE SHELL:

"I am, therefore I'll think." - Any Rand

The ghost in the shell is the host of this hell.