Haje’s Brain

Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) is a surrealistic film created in 1928. It was written by two young, largely unknown men, Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel, and directed by the latter. Of course, both these guys got plenty more than their fifteen minutes of fame…
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… but the Blues Brothers aren’t just a film. They are a band. Actually, they are the band that revitalized the musical genre of Blues - at first as a mere coincidence, and later with more and more determination.
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The new year is not without its own surprises. Just like the old one wasn’t. It is a bit like starting to bike when the pedals are pointing straight up and down. You can’t. There is that tiny little forward motion you need to be able to step down. And to be able to move the pedal forward, you have to be moving forward. Which was how the whole drill started in the first place - the wish of going forward….
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This is a story I wrote quite some time ago. The story behind this story is about as complicated as the story itself (yet, fortunately, considerably shorter)…
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When I first was introduced to Iain Banks, I was amazed by his sheer storytelling power. Since, I have started reading a Banks book as every second book I’ve read. When I discovered that my local supermarket had a deal on hardbacks, and especially when I found banks’ book, I was hooked.
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Methodology is the study of methods - in other words, methodology is
the science of understanding what method of conducting research is best applicable
in a certain situation. This article is concerned only with the social sciences: Science that cannot
explicitly be expressed in numbers.

If you, for example, were to find out how many cows there are in Wales, interviewing people on the streets of Tokyo is probably a bad idea. Calling and talking to all the farmers or traveling around and counting them yourself,
would probably be better ideas.

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Poe describes his older poems as “crude compositions of my earliest boyhood” (Poe 1845, page 55), and apologises � in tradition with other works of gothic fiction � for his own works by saying that The Raven and Other Poems is hardly worth reading: “I think nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself.” (Poe 1845, preface). A literary review / criticism of A Dream
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