Silvestris Animaliterra and Carton Mazeotopia

This series of short stories were written while living abroad. As in the first volume, Tongues of Flames and Other Stories, to make the reading interactive, a series of quotes were inserted: Theogony. Works and Days by Hesiod, The Libray by Apollodorus, Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, Odyssey by Homer, Tristia. Ex Ponto by Publius Ovidius Naso, The Bible, The New Testament, The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Eusebius, The Divine Comedy. Inferno by Dante Alighieri, The Plum in the Golden Vase or The Golden Lotus by Jing Ping Mei, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Spartacus by Howard Melvin Fast, The Witches by Roald Dahl, Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges, Apollo 13. Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription by NASA, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Ioan Petru Culianu, The Blood of Martyrs: Unintended Consequences of Ancient Violence by Joyce E. Salisbury, Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-architecture of Desire by Mark Wigley. Readers of all ages are invited to search details about these works online and in the library. This is a fictional work. Actions, events, names and characters are the creation of the author's imagination. Any similarity or resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. ADL Pop