Literature

Literature has had a place of honour in World society since time immemorable. Estemed writers were given places of prestige in courts of kings, and bards sang their tales to captivated audiences. The irrepressable names of Dumas, Byron, Dickens, Verne, Melville and Doyle have engraved their words in stone to be forever remembered. Their epics have influenced society and literature has provided the neccessary medium to act as the catalyst. Modern writers shirk from these monstrous tasks, and prefer rather to stick to short, politically correct, and uncontroversial works, and those who do undertake to write works of more epic proportions stop short of achieving a memorable place in literary history. Perhaps it is the halmark of our times to be socially accepting, and to defer from expressing the 'anti' view. An 'anti' work is today often characterised by harsh and obvious criticisms, rather than the clever, subtle convictions of old. The short story, on the other hand, centers around a single moment, and often spends it's entirity describing, with no lack of meaningless adjectives, a scene which otherwise people would have paid little attention to. This is the recess of failed painters, who wish to show the audience a picture, but due to their profound lack of artistic skill with the brush, buy a pen and a thesaurus instead.

Contents

- Maori Myths & Legends

- For the Glory of Rome
- The Sanity of Professor R.J. Basil Part One, Two, Three
- The Trials of Archibald Henderson of Windsor

- Convergere

- Other