Thursday, 6 October 2016

Sunday, 2 October 2016

Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Night Creatures



The sun will never burn so bright
now that I've  been a creature of the night






wolf



Bat


Owl



Some type of mouse


fox




spider




Deathstalker Scorpion

Smaller than a regular scorpion and lightly coloured.  Can  blend in to the colour of sand and rocks.  The Most poisonous of scorpions, but the sting should not kill you if you are young and healthy.



Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Where is it now , the Glory and the Dream ?


THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,

    The earth, and every common sight,

            To me did seem

    Apparell'd in celestial light,

The glory and the freshness of a dream.
         
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—

        Turn wheresoe'er I may,

            By night or day,

The things which I have seen I now can see no more






       —But there's a tree, of many, one,

A single field which I have look'd upon,

Both of them speak of something that is gone:

          The pansy at my feet
  
          Doth the same tale repeat:

Whither is fled the visionary gleam?

Where is it now, the glory and the dream?


- William Wordsworth






Monday, 16 May 2016

Devil 's Bible

According to one version of a legend that was already recorded in the Middle Ages, the scribe was a monk who broke his monastic vows and was sentenced to be walled up alive.  In order to forbear this harsh penalty he promised to create in one day a book to glorify the monastery forever, including all human knowledge. Near midnight, he became sure that he could not complete this task alone, so he made a special prayer, not addressed to God but to the fallen angel Lucifer, asking him to help him finish the book in exchange for his soul. The devil completed the manuscript and the monk added the devil's picture out of gratitude for his aid. In tests to recreate the work, it is estimated that reproducing only the calligraphy, without the illustrations or embellishments, would have taken 5 years of non-stop writing.


In popular fiction, the twelve missing pages of the Codex Gigas are rumoured to contain an apocalyptic text called "The Devil's Prayer"


The script writers from Penny Dreadful  must have been reading up about the Devil's Bible on Wikipedia. 




The introduction of this storyline was good for the pacing in season 2,



until  they ruined it and  made it all about the Wolf of God.