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by Tanja Cilia It Is a Business Model Built on Male Insecurity There is something deeply ironic about a movement that calls itself “red-pilled”.  The expression comes from The Matrix, the 1999 science-fiction film in which Neo is offered a choice. Take the blue pill, and remain in

by Tanja Cilia And Still It Burns   ANGER → the feeling Antagonism… Annoyance… abhorrence. Nothing anyone does or says will soothe the Great wrath Eating the soul… Resentment is self-sustaining. IRE → the simmering Irritation and indignation have Risen like an Eerie tide of aggression. FURY → the eruption Fulminating loathing; Umbrage

by Tanja Cilia There is something unsettling about Circe. Perhaps it is the magic. Or perhaps it is the uncomfortable possibility that, beneath the familiar story of the enchantress, there is a woman we have never really tried to understand. Circe is usually depicted as a witch: beautiful, dangerous and

by Tanja Cilia For most Maltese people, August 15 means ‘Santa Marija’ [The Assumption]... festas, band marches, fireworks, village rivalry, family breakfasts that somehow stretch into dinner, and the annual ritual of escaping to Gozo, or finding a patch of sea where the rest of Malta has not yet arrived.

Book Table of Contents Next → Chapter 2 She grimaced at the article, embarrassed at the byline.  Greatest Vacations of Modern Day Superstars by Lucia Castilla. This was what she had been reduced to. Stories of rich people on vacation, living their adventurous lives - while she sat behind her computer desk.