Brilliant Prose

An Awful Power / Mark Twain

An Awful Power / Mark Twain

  There you see the hand of that awful power, the Roman Catholic Church. In two or three little centuries it had converted a nation of men to a nation of worms. Before the day of the Church’s supremacy in the world, men were men, and held their heads up, and had a man’s pride […]

Dark Caves of the Mind/ Rabindranath Tagore

    In the drowsy dark caves of the mind Dreams build their nest with fragments Dropped from day’s caravan Spring scatters the petals of flowers That are not for the fruits of the future, But for the moment’s whim.   From “Firefly” by Rabindranath Tagore In my new novel ” The Stranger’s Enigma,” Dr. […]