Opposites ‘Retract’ — Contronyms are a special class of words that contain not only one meaning, but their own opposite meanings too. Variously known as auto-antonyms, contranyms, or even just a Janus word (after that Roman deity whom faces both the past and the future at once); these textual tidbits occur fairly frequently…

Wordsmithing from A to Z — A pangram is a whole sentence or verse that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. It may contain multiple instances of some of those letters, but every letter will appear at least once. Pangrams are useful for displaying the full range of any given font, and can also…

A tribute poem on Jack’s centennial — “The only truth is music — the only meaning is without meaning — Music blends with the heartbeat universe and we forget the brain beat.” ~ Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels 100 years ago today, one of the most influential modern poets was born to a French Canadian family living in…

Procedural Poetic Code — Kubernetes (Greek: κυβερνήτης) noun: ‘Helmsman’ or ‘Pilot’ — is the etymological root for the English word, cybernetics. It’s also become the name for an open-source software automation container system originally developed by Google. …

And other monetary manias — The present day investment trends in cryptocurrencies and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) has lately been likened to the 17th century Dutch tulip mania. For those who don’t know, this was in effect the first recorded instance of a what investors call a ‘speculative bubble’. Of course, bubbles tend to burst, and…

Never The Machine Forever — There’s been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms eventually replacing human writers. Yours Truly has recently been experimenting with some of the leading GPT-3 apps (though none of them will be named here), and found them rather wanting overall. …

Tome of The Sixth Sun | Lunacy Trilogy | Book III — The Siege of Medyuh Concludes Banneret Zœyh shuffled silently down a narrow alleyway by the light of a fragmented moon. She was accompanied by Zapphoh, as well as a small band of Barbary Bards. Out of necessity, their army had split into many smaller contingents. Empress Atharvanh had put bounties on all their heads, and…

Tome of The Sixth Sun [Lunacy Trilogy Book III] Second Battle Around Marz Reddest Orkh — The Anti-Angel — had finally returned for a rematch in orbit of Marz along with his pervasive retinue of Dæmon & Druuj retainers. …

A tongue-in-cheek tribute — Puff Piece [noun, Informal]: A newspaper article, book, public-relations film, etc., whose purpose is to praise or flatter. From the forthcoming, Future Sutras: A Decade of Anti-Poetry Puff Piece Now here at long last we have something so well written that it really forces us to think and perhaps even wonder if…