The Hydra, now she was a worm. Chop off one head and straight away there’d be another glaring at you. Like marriage really. And after this I’ve got to go down into Hell and drag out that stupid dog, what’s his name, Cerberus. Three heads, loads of teeth – that one. No wonder the dead don’t get any letters – who’s going to deliver them with a dog like that at the gate?
-- Hercules to Atlas, in Jeanette Winterson’s Weight
Human taste buds can detect the presence of strychnine when it is but 1 part in 2,500,000. Some moths are able to pick up the scent of their female mate as a distance of a mile or more. The moth being attracted to the flame pales in comparison with the male moth who is attracted to and can find his mate over such an extraordinary distance of separation. This is a design that prefigures a love story A search for wisdom
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Night: To the very last moment, a germ of hope stayed alive
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's wrenching attempt to find meaning in the horror of the Holocaust is technically a novel, but it's based so closely on his own experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald that it's generally--and not inaccurately--read as an autobiography
Oprah has announced her next big pick, Night by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. In Night, a pious teenager racked with guilt at having survived the Holocaust asks an intolerable question: how can God have allowed these monstrous events to occur? No Better Picture of God than Here - Except in the Bible
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