🪐 GOSPEL & UNIVERSE - on agnosticism - Contents: brief & detailed

💕 THE FRACTAL HEART - a romantic sci-fi fantasy - Contents

🇺🇦 CRISIS 22 - on literature & the Ukraine War - Contents

MISC. ✴︎ Short Fiction ✴︎ Poetry ✴︎ College English

About Me ✴︎ Photos: 80s Asia∙Travel & Art

~ by R.Y. Clark, Vancouver, Canada ~

The hooded figure at the top of this page is Giordano Bruno, a 16th century Italian thinker. In 1600 Bruno was taken, naked and silenced, to Campo de’ Fiori, a beautiful square in the centre of Rome. They put his tongue in a wooden vice so that he couldn’t express his unorthodox views — about Jesus, the Trinity, the eucharist, heliocentrism, salvation, infinite space, reincarnation, the nature of stars, and life on faraway planets. Because he voiced his views publicly, the Roman Inquisition burned him alive at the stake.

If I were to pick two symbolic images for this website, they would be a planet as seen from outer space and the hooded figure of Giordano Bruno. Though long dead, Bruno still towers above us, caressed by the dark blue sky.

The three book-length works on this site all relate to Bruno’s heretical notions: 🪐 Gospel & Universe explores many of the same unorthodox points Bruno made about religion and astronomy; 💕The Fractal Heart peoples the alien planets that Bruno imagined 400 years ago; and 🇺🇦 Crisis 22 argues against autocratic powers (Rome’s Inquisition then, Moscow’s Kremlin now) that destroy the freedom and the lives of those who refuse to be coerced.