Con Nhà Nho Giáo Everybody has heard this saying and everyone thinks it means a person who is from a well-educated family. That is true, to a certain extent, but it does not describe the statement fully. In the old days (oh some thousands of years in the past, all the way up to about... Continue Reading →
Tát Nước Đầu Đình
Tát Nước Đầu Đình is an ancient Vietnamese folk poem whose author has disappeared into the smoky haze of the ages. We know only that it came out of the area around the Gulf of Tonkin (Vịnh Bắc Bộ 北部湾 ) due to the language used. It is ageless, timeless, and exquisite in its portrayal of... Continue Reading →
Ancient Việt 05: Văn Khoa Đẩu
Picture credit: Linh Nguyen We are an ancient people. Việt history goes back far, far beyond what is the current accepted history of what Vietnam is suppose to be, spanning over four thousand years into the murky past. Unfortunately, much of it was destroyed by the Han dynasty during the third (as well as the fourth) invasion... Continue Reading →
Mémoire of the Denizens of Spacefarers
Thus were the stars of heaven created like a golden chain To bind the Body of Man to heaven from falling into the Abyss. Each took his station and his course began with sorrow & care In sevens & tens & fifties, hundreds, thousands, number'd all According to their various powers, subordinate to Urizen And... Continue Reading →
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