Eternal Enemies

The highway became the Red Sea. We moved through the storm like a sheer valley. You drove; I looked at you with love. —from "Storm" One of the most gifted and readable poets of his time, Adam Zagajewski is proving to be a contemporary classic. Few writers in either poetry or prose can be said to have attained the lucid intelligence and limpid economy of style that have become a matter of course with Zagajewski. It is these qualities, combined with his wry humor, gentle skepticism, and perpetual sense of history's dark possibilities, that have earned him a devoted international following. This collection, gracefully translated by Clare Cavanagh, finds the poet reflecting on place, language, and history. Especially moving here are his tributes to writers, friends known in person or in books—people such as Milosz and Sebald, Brodsky and Blake—which intermingle naturally with portraits of family members and loved ones. Eternal Enemies is a luminous meeting of art and everyday life.

It takes unholy courage to win a holy war--in the soaring battlefields of Tibet! (from the book cover).

First published in 1986. An unabashed and accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian Nights, complete in four volumes.

QUALB Provides: Any point on the surface of the Spherical-Time-Matrix contains the Qualb-Code. Every human in the 22 Sibling Universes has an immediate, (in time), and a direct, (in space), access to the Qualb-Code. This is known as QUALB provides. Qualb-Code, The: The Code of QUALB, according to which the whole Creation is being continuously created, unfolded, evolved, of QUALB’s own free will and the free will of the human race. The Qualb-Code is the “mediator” between the Time-world and the Timeless-world; the “mediator” between the living and nonliving human beings. The Qualb-Code is the substratum of the Spherical Time-Matrix. QUALB-Lucifer Clash: The clash ensued some 50 millennia ago. Lucifer suggested to QUALB the Giver, the SUPREME BEING, to switch Atlantis Universe to a completely free-will mode and offered self to be the sole guardian of such a free-willed Atlantis Universe. In such a universe, Lucifer would work independently from QUALB, so that QUALB could focus His work on other issues in Atlantis Universe. Satan and Belial, the human beings of the code-11 from Atlantis Continent, and Leviathan, a human of the code-11 from Lemuria Continent, seconded Lucifer’s proposal. As a result, QUALB down-codes Lucifer from the code-13 down to code-11, and revokes Lucifer’s post as the Master Guardian of the Creation.

FICTION-FANTASY Physics, Physics-in-Fiction, Physics Fiction, and Metaphysics The story about Doctor Faustef from his youth years up to the times when he becomes an immortal human being of the code-13 and, subsequently, defeats Lucifer. QUALB the Giver, the Creator of all that there is, the Everlasting Human Being, gives Faustef the post of the Master Guardian of the Atlantis Universe and Her 21 Sibling Universes, the former post of Lucifer.

First published in 2013. An unabashed and accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian Nights, complete in four volumes.

The Total Enemy explores the most radicalized forms of enmity, trying to unravel some of its historical and contemporary expressions. Starting from the premise that one of modernity's constitutive values is non-violence, the book explores how non-violence, or rather the making of a world free of violence, becomes a cause of violence, in some instances even extreme violence and totalitarian terror. The book consists of six case studies each exploring and discussing historically specific expressions of depicting an enemy as one the actors believe they can only deal with violently. It begins by looking at two important sites in the development of the total enemy, the French Revolution and the emergence of terrorist thinking in the middle of the nineteenth century. The book then turns to the twentieth century, beginning with the pre-WWII conceptualizations of the "total" in European political thought as an answer to a liberal state deemed unfit to manage and control mass society. Secondly, it considers the totalitarian enemy in Nazi Germany, especially Soviet Russia. Finally the book turns to two forms of contemporary total enmity: Islamism and in right-wing extremism. These concluding chapters look specifically at what happens to the total enemy concept once it goes from the state concept of the twentieth century to the private practice of the twenty-first.

From the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations encountered each other along often changing and contested borders. Examining this geographically vast, multicultural region through a variety of methodological lenses, this volume offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist in a previous era and why the areas eventually descended into violence. An understanding of this region will help readers grasp the preconditions of interethnic coexistence and the causes of ethnic violence and war in many of the world's other borderlands both past and present.