A Beginning to Apocalyptic End Survey of World History, Literature and Mythology…
If Planet Earth could write its own obituary, this would be it.
Trade war ⇒ ⇒ Cold War ⇒ ⇒ ARMAGEDDON
The world ends on August 6, 2028.
After thousands of years of philosophy, religion, literature and war, humanity has learned nothing: not even how to survive. Zeus and Odysseus watch helplessly as the world spirals toward an unimaginable end: not with wisdom, but with slogans, applause, and a final tweet.
This book turns today’s anxieties into tomorrow’s nightmares, exposing the follies of power while celebrating the resilience of the human spirit.
The gods had their day, and the writers had their say, but none of it prevented the final countdown.
Led by Aristotleson and the Departed Elite, Zeus, Odysseus, Athena, Hermes and the Muses leave a nuked Earth behind, embarking on the ultimate odyssey - across the stars, toward new worlds, at the Speed of Thought.
If Planet Earth could write its own obituary, this would be it.
The sequel of Eulogy of Planet Earth
Toby, Toby Shandy is a character from Thomas Stern’s novel, Tristram Shandy, of whom it is verbatim written:
‘My uncle Toby would never offer to answer this by any other kind of argument, than that of whistling half a dozen bars of ‘Lillabullero.’ You must know it was the usual channel through which his passions got vent, when anything shocked or surprised him, but especially when anything, which he deemed absurd, was offered.
As not one of our logical writers, nor any of the commentators upon them, that I remember, have thought proper to give a name to this particular species of argument, I here take the liberty to do it myself… that, in order to prevent all confusion in disputes, it may stand as much distinguished forever from every species of argument, … I therefore by these presents, strictly order and command that it be known and distinguished by the name and title of ‘Argumentum Fistulatorium (1) and no other. And that it rank hereafter with Argumentum Baculinum (2) and the Argumentum ad Crumenam (3) and forever hereafter be treated of in the same chapter.”
(1) Argumentum Fistulatorium: argument by shrieking, screeching and whistling.
(2) Argumentum Baculinum: argument by beating your opponent with a stick.
(3) Argumentum Crumenam: argument accepted based on the speaker’s financial status.
The music was written by Henry Purcel, considered England’s greatest Baroque composer.