I met an anthropologist novelist at the vancouver literature festival in Canada who told me that our need to feel close to fear is a basic instinct. The more man is comfortable, the more he needs fear. A physical representation of fear is the hypothalamus gland. This gland which gives us goosepumps and relates directly to when man had hair upon his body. Read more [...]

“welcome everybody to the word, the sound and the Power in the Voice festival. first and foremost please welcome onto the stage the one and the only ....”And I remind myself of the first person who was on that list without looking at the paper... the name escapes me for a second so I use a descriptive word “the incredible....” and at last it came to me “The Dogfather...”. The crowd whoop and holler. The only problem was The Dogfather was not there. Read more [...]