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Welcome
to the Eighth Square
You
have reached EighthSquare.com, a place on the vast chessboard of
the Internet where writers, poets, various literary types, artists,
photographers, travelers and such can share their words, images
and thoughts with others.
Now
playing:
Essays:
The
Threnodies of Jan Kochanowski (Treny)
by Barry Keane
Selected
translations of this Polish Renaissance masterpiece, wherein the
poet, in a cycle of nineteen poems, confronts the death of Orzulsa,
his beloved three-year-old daughter. The poems are accompanied by
commentaries which place the work within the traditions of consolation
literature found in antiquity.
Flexagon
Discovery:
The Shape Shifting 12-Gon
by Ann Schwartz
As if ordinary flexagons weren't fascinating
enough, here comes a hexadodecaflexagon
(12-gon for short) with propellers and rogue
triangles. Flexagons aren't created; supposedly
there are an infinite number just waiting for
someone to discover them. A copywriter does
just that and gives us the details.
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Sites
To Check
Looking
for Lewis Carroll
Explore the curious life of the man and the curious way that
history and biographers have dealt with him.
Trailblazing
Trihexaflexagons
Vern Gutenkunst presents everything you need to know about
this particular breed of flexagon, including his own variation.
Scriptorium
Fontcraft
Gorgeous fonts and art. Never ceases to amaze.
Visit
the nine planets and listen to Holst's music at The
Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System. It
even includes Sedna (no musical accompaniment).
Mervyn
Peake
Sebastian Peake runs this site dedicated to the late author,
poet, playwright and artist.
The
Laborarory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes
studies the cognitive aspects of human/computer interaction
(and frustration). Take their survey
on your level of computer rage.
Bhangra.com
provides bhangra mp3 downloads.
Demotivators
Just stop complaining and go, you miserable loser!
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A
Shot of Strong Spirit -
Life in a Polish Town
by Tom Galvin
A young Irishman takes a teaching position
in a small Polish town in the 1990s. An excerpt
from Galvin's upcoming book on life during a time
of momentous change in Poland's history.
Travelogue,
Part 3, Myanmar
by Andrew Nickson
A continuation of Mr. Nickson's travels through
Mandalay and on into Bagan.
Darjeeling
to Jaisalmer
by Richard Brafford
In
which this temperamental artistic genius
giveshis neighbors and fellow New Yorkers a break
by leaving thecountry
and returns much changed,at least for the moment.
Mac
vs. Windows:The Battle of the Operating Systems
by Larisa C. Hnizdo
A middle-school student looks into the pros and cons
of each OS.
Who
Let the Cats Out?
Our take on a pressing issue.
The
Fine Art of Living Small
by Ela Schwartz
Style and sanity in a 7-by-15-foot room?
Scenes
from a Postcard Collection
If you can't join them, at least you can read their postcards.
Poetry:
Not completely forsaken by the Fair Nine
Footsteps
From Another World
by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
Ireland's mystical past intrudes on its present in
these poems by this distinguished professor of
Irish folklore.
Picador
by Barry Keane
An imagined night in the Picador Cafe, where in Warsaw,
November 1918, five burgeoning Polish poets celebrated
the rebirth of the Polish nation with a poetry recital.
Julian
Tuwim
by Ela Schwartz
An ode to the Polish poet and one of his greatest works,
"The Common Man"
Saintly
Behavior
by Patrick O'Connor
Two Poems
by James Campbell
Javascripty
by Lin Black
Married to the Queen
by Phil Mitchell
The Second Sister
by Lin Black
Two Nonsense Poems
by Hilda Quinn
The Wind
by Ian Hnizdo, age 7
The House of Dessicant
by M.J.
Art:
The
World of Ryszard Kryska
A showcase of the work of this Polish surrealist.
The
Nude Reclining
by Richard Brafford
How artists have interpreted this theme from the Renaissance to
today.
Ellen
Levitt's photography
A site-within-a-site showcasing Ellen's work.
Stories:
Yellow
Flowers
by Phil Mitchell
American GIs in World War II experience a rare, and brief, moment
of peace.
When
Human Voices Wake Us
by Jay Malkin
A seemingly normal day at the beach turns into something else.
Skewers:
A chess term that describes a sneaky move that can often win you
the game. Our attempt at humor.
The
Cat Reclining
How artists have interpreted this theme, sort of.
Technical
Documentation: Working a Coffee Machine
by R. Lee Sullivan
Operating a coffee machine is a complex task. Here's the technical
documentation
to help you get through it.
Swimming
in the Incompetent Sea
While keeping your sanity
Computer
Hell
by Dick Brafford
Something we can all relate to.
Fake
Words
Our candidates for the next edition of Webster's.
Who
Let the Carts Out?
Forget the cats, here's the real issue at stake.
Where
the Sun Doesn't Shine
by Ela Schwartz
A name change for Uranus.
Archive:
Old
Stuff
Flexagon
Fever
by Ela Schwartz
Who would have thought a writer who didn't get past high-school
trig and can't draw a straight line would become obsessed with a
"mathematical oddity," discovering its properties, and
coming up with intriguing designs?
Fireflies
in Malaysia
by Michele C. Hollow
Thousands
of these fairylike creatures light up the night in the small village
of Kampung Kuantan.
Travelogue,
Part 2
by Andrew Nickson
The
peripatetic Nickson gives us a glimpse of Burma, aka Myanmar.
Travelogue
Part 1
You are Here...itinerant traveler
and opera fanatic Andrew Nickson takes
us from Italy to Morocco and back. Battle
of the Chias
by Ela Schwartz
In
which we ponder Chia Pets, Neopets, and cybersquatting.
The post that's driven traffic to
this site like no other. People really do love their Chia Pets.
Bikes
in China
by Dick Brafford
Why
would the Chinese want to be more like us? Read Dick Brafford's
take.
Soliloquy
An anonymous pawn slams her little round head against the wall after
being manipulated and betrayed by some Baby Bells.
Jean-Marc
Bustamente at the Matthew Marks Gallery
by Gus Flaubert
"Negative landscapes of destruction"
John
J. O'Connor at Pierogi Gallery
by Gregory Montreuil
"Mixes the scientific with the absurd"
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