While the musical performance was outstanding, Tobias Kratzer’s staging never fully developed a coherent central interpretation. Its powerful visual ideas remained compelling individually but ultimately obscured rather than clarified Wagner’s central tragedy: Wotan’s imprisonment within the very order he created. Continue reading
The Infernal Affairs trilogy (I- III) presents a double infiltration structure between the Hong Kong police force and a triad organization. Its deeper structure is about the psychological destabilization of identity under competing evaluative frameworks not about crime resolution. At its surface level, the narrative follows undercover operations, internal betrayal, and escalating exposure of moles … Continue reading
Happy new year. With great comfort I quit cold science to do something new this year. I am, however, in gratitude for my life, for my family, for my colleagues and friends. That includes many of you. I am blessed and lucky. I have learned many times that challenges and failures have great purpose, they … Continue reading
I learned recently during a trip through Scotland more about the Picts, who were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Celtic tribal people living in ancient eastern and northern part. Their language has been lost, except for fragments, although they left behind a wealth of “picture stones,” large monoliths carved with mysterious symbols whose meanings … Continue reading
Recently I attended a catholic retreat in a Benedictine mountain monastery. The theme was: The wolf in us. We discussed the archetypes and myths of the wolf, a topic I had explored in great length before, their archetypes here and here. The point was raised, that the wolf represents greed, one of the seven deadly sins. What … Continue reading