Inspiration
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others... I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both… She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent… I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way… It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it… With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two…
L'Etranger - Albert Camus
L'étranger, written by French novelist & philosopher Albert Camus in 1942 is perhaps the masterpiece of absurdist literature. Frequently translated as 'The Stranger' or 'The Outsider', I would dare to suggest a more appropriate title: 'The Misfit'. Meursault, the main character, pays lip service to socially accepted conventions & morals which, in an absurdly codified society such as ours, whether it be in the 1940s or today, can only bring about his (& its) downfall, which it does (& is on the verge of doing).
John 1 - Genesis
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Thirteen
Do you suffer from Triskaidekaphobia? In short, the fear or the avoidance of the number 13. Simple pagan superstition or some deep meaning? Your guess is as good as ours... Yet the number 13 bears an undeniably symbolic connotation, as do other numbers such as 2, 3 , 7, 10, 17, 666, .... Arithmomany or numerology have been part & parcel of religious belief & folklore throughout the ages. The 13 mini-series carries on this ancestral tradition, but to what end? Well, you'll just have to wait & see. Here follows 13 instances of the number 13 - symmetrically objectivizing...
1. The Artist & The Instigator
The artistic visual is brushed by Andrew Davolls. The creative writing is penned by Bryan Wagstaff.
2. Friday 13th
A night of fear...
3. The Last Supper
And he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
4. The 13th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
5. Apollo 13
Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module failed two days into the mission. The crew instead looped around the Moon and returned safely to Earth on April 17.
6. Fibonacci sequence
The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two that precede it. Starting at 0 and 1, the sequence looks like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and so on forever. The Fibonacci sequence can be described using a mathematical equation: Xn+2= Xn+1 + Xn.
7. Tarot card 13
Death (XIII) is the 13th trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. It is used in Tarot card games as well as in divination. The card typically depicts the Grim Reaper, and when used for divination is often interpreted as signifying major changes in a person's life.
