Prometheus by Marieta Maglas (i can read book club txt) 📕

mature enough to handle this situation,"said Laura.

A dinner party for close friends is always nice and it is appreciated by them. Ella got some sophisticated menus to celebrate in style. Ella started to organize the party with her husband, but she didn't want to start bragging about the birthday. She wanted to do everything quietly. Therefore, she bought the surprises.

"Victor encourages Jeff to follow his own urge to stretch the limits of his new scenario," John told to Alexander.

"Victor's ideas are well adopted. Am I right, Jeff?" said Alexander.

"We harm others around us, through our imagination, to innocently pursue our ideals. I use the censorship to correct Ella's work. It is very important because it can limit the things that are allowed to be shown and said. I like to replace some Ella's ideas with Victor's ideas. Moreover, Ella's ideas appear to be changed in self as the real Prometheus is back, "said Jeff.

"Do you want a real Prometheus? Ella created a very good character, a symbolistic one," said Michael.

"I respect Victor's judgment and I follow any advice he gives me without stretching the limits of my new scenario, "said Jeff.

"Jeff's consciousness is quickly snatched back when he is encouraged by others to live as he did. He likes to make the rules. Jeff likes Victor because he always has new ideas and he is a very wise man," John told to Alexander.

"Indeed, Jeff likes to make the rules. I can accept this, but Michael can't accept them," said Alexander.

"This new Prometheus needed to destroy an invisible creature," said Ella.

"The monster was in his head, Ella, but there is no chance for the man with his dream. He must accept the things just as they are," said Jeff.

"Maybe you're right, Jeff, but his machismo of thinking was rooted in his fantasy of limitlessness," said Ella.

"My dear Ella, sometimes our dreams are our own enemies," said Jeff.

"I think that it is a professional competition between Jeff and Alexander and this is the reason why Jeff needs to change your opinion about Prometheus, Ella. He knows very well that your book describes your husband features relating to Prometheus. I think that you must let him to do his job such as he consider to do it," said Marie.

"Sometimes, we are not honest when we become each other's competitors. We must be our own competitors every day," said Victor, thinking that his success is always measured by the nature of his vision.

"We pretend that we try to correct the mistakes of our friends, but in fact, we hurt them," said John, smiling and wanting to reveal the tension between Jeff and Alexander and the contradictions created.

"This myth of Prometheus is a perfect tragedy in itself. We have to learn from our past," said Laura. She was scared. She didn't know it, but her eyes showed it.

"Prometheus can be viewed as a hero and as a thief, at the same time. This is why the tragedy occurred," said Victor. He began to get bored and started picking out faults of people around in his head.

"He was a visionary, a genius and a suffering champion of the mankind," said Lisa. She always would find an excuse to talk with you or spend time with you. She was conscious of her look, when you are around her. She was always willing to give her best shot.

"Yes, Lisa, Prometheus was condemned to suffer as a human being," said Samantha, trying to withstand all her bitter ruminations on Lisa's real indifference toward human sacrifice.

"Prometheus was more than a human being. This is the reason why his suffering was so intense. He became a model for the man. Prometheus taught the man to give it a new deep sense in overcoming his mortality," said Nora. She understood Samantha's reaction, but she thought teaching would be a good way to change Lisa's mentality.

"The inner strength of Prometheus was beyond the decision of Zeus," said Alexander.

"You're right," said Samantha."But Ella's book is a process of inversion of the power meaning."

"Ella wrote in her book that this new Prometheus was a victim. When the leaders proclaimed themselves deities, he fought against their tyranny," said Victor.

"Her character was a simple mortal man wanting to live forever. He brought the sacred light for the people, more exactly, the freedom of the knowledge. Thus, he died as a hero," said Marie. Marie had a very good analytical mind and a critical thinking, She had a keen eye for detail. She understood that Lisa tried to improve her own condition. Usually, Marie understands other people better then they understand themselves.

"In fact, he was a simple man and his fatal destiny was highly tensioned,"' said Jeff. Generally, he seems to listen to what people have to say, but he never expresses his profound ideas, so you don't know what he really thinks or whether he agrees with you. He seems to be cooperative, but then, he tries to do it his own way, even if he's agreed otherwise.

"The name of Prometheus means 'fore thinker'," said Nora.

"Really? Indeed, he was a great thinker," said Lisa.

"He had the gift of prophecy and he tried to help Kronos against Zeus. Kronos disliked his plans and he defected to the Olympians. Finally, he helped Zeus to beat Kronos," said Samantha.

"Maybe Prometheus is a fallen angel," said Michael.

"A part of Enoch's biblical story is very similar with the Greek story of Prometheus," said Samantha.

"This fallen angel, as you said, brought some essential knowledge to the people," said Alexander.

"Adam and Eve ate the apple of knowledge and they were expelled from the God's Garden of Eden. They lost their paradise. Prometheus lost the mercy of gods, after he had stolen the fire. In other words, they had the same attitude in front of the divine force," said Nora.

"It was a prophecy about the liberation of Prometheus," said John.

"Prometheus knew about his release from the chains. He said that Herakles shall deliver him from all those pains," said Michael, having a glass of wine in his right hand.

"I invite you all to dinner, " said Ella.

Ella placed various dishes on the table such as garlic roasted chicken with rosemary and lemon, served with steamed vegetables and with mashed potatoes, crab salad and basil soup. The marinated roast lamb had rosemary sauce and it was served with steamed vegetables. For the dessert, she chose to prepare some coconut tarts. She made many chocolate brownies with vanilla ice-cream. In the end, she served iced coffee with ice-cream. All the dishes were prepared by herself.

"All these dishes look so adorable and just perfect for Alexander's birthday," said Lisa.

"I worked hard to prepare them. It is a very painstaking work," said Ella.

"Generally, I'm crazy about coconut. Now I'm crazy about those sweet tarts," said Samantha.

"What a beautiful artwork, Ella! " John exclaimed, being visibly surprised.

"Which one?" asked Ella.

"That painting hanging on the wall in the left corner."

"'It's a copy of the original painting. It belongs to Vladimir Kush. It's a surrealist painting inspired by the work of Salvador Dali. Vladimir is one of the most talented surrealists," said Ella.

"I can tell you that Surrealism emphasized the unconscious in creativeness," said John.

"I don't like him. My favourite painter is Raymond Douillet. She's a modern artist. Her work is simply amazing," said Marie.

"Did you see Matti Kujasalo's paintings?" Laura asked Samantha.

"She painted only darker colors. I don't like her," said Samantha.

"Her paintings have a special lyrical tone," continued Laura.

"Matti Kujasalo's works are easy to read," said Michael.

"The inexplicable sensitive pleasure is always a mystery," said Jeff.

"Nothing is more complicated and mysterious than Oda Jaune's paintings. She straddles the space between surrealism and expressionism with a profoundly disturbing fragility," said Alexander.

"She said that she can save the viewer's fear. Do you want a coconut tart, Michael?" asked Samantha.

"Thank you, Sam. They are delicious."

"Victor, wasn't the Surrealism similar to the Dadaism?"

"Surrealism inherited its anti-rationalist sensibility from Dada, Nora, but it was lighter in spirit than that movement."

"Why, Victor?" asked Lisa smiling.

"Because the surrealist movement expressed the imagination in a method that was free from control, convention and reason. The literature reflects better than any painting what I want to say, Lisa."

"The literature reflects better than paintings the changes made in a society," said Nora.

"Moreover, it is a mirror of the society. We know how the society operated in the past due to the literature of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Romantics. It reflects better than anything else the changes between the periods," said John.

"The most important historical society change was the change of the Russian society and that happened when the Bolsheviks got to power. I don't remember any painting dating from that period," said Samantha.

"It was a very hard period with radical changes. I suppose that they didn't have any time to paint. I read that the state took over the farms formerly owned by the nobility. Those farms became collectives. The private farmers were forced to join collectives. The government took over the private companies. The cities looked like slums," said Victor.

"Only powerful people can resist the changes," said Michael

"Because powerful people have an economic advantage over powerless people," said Jeff.

"They don't want to share their power. This is very important." said Nora.

"I changed myself when I learned the importance of giving back to someone else," said Samantha.

"Yes, giving back to someone else is very important. More important is to learn what to do in order to avoid hurting the people around you, "said Nora.

"I always care about the pain in front of me. I have wanted to help others very much before I realized that there are some certain things that I shouldn't even care," said Laura.

"I'm unable to comprehend why people make decisions that rationally are pure foolishness and why they do not approach the right persons to make the things working. Don't let yourself to suffer for someone who doesn't deserve it," said Marie.

"And eventually find someone else who will love you and give you the love you deserve," said Samantha.

"When I lose a friend or a lover, I make a new one," said Lisa.

"Don't let yourself get stuck to a crummy one," said John smiling.

"That's what makes life interesting, isn't it?" said Michael, smiling too.

"Try to find a new meaning for the same love. It always helps, I'm sure," said Victor

"It's funny that some people make decisions when they cannot take the consequences," continued Jeff, smiling too.

"Why are you laughing?" asked Laura.

"Happiness and sadness are two veils of the same feeling of love. It is between men and women now, Laura," said Alexander.

"I know." continued Laura, smiling reproachfully.

"Let's dance," said Ella.

 

Chapter 11

 

Laura and Her Deepest Secret

 

Michael asked Ella to dance.

"I have loved you since I began to learn in high school. It was hard enough to be a poor seventeen teenager in a small town, to learn in an expensive high school and to wait the love of my life. It was very hard for me to achieve my destiny. I had no courage to spend too much money on things, due to the fear of not being able to bear the difficulties without any complaint and not being able to pay the school fees. I had to be strong enough to accept the situation. I didn't have money, but once I found your love, I realized that I had something much stronger than life itself. I found a person, who could understand me, loving, caring and faithful woman. Most of all, you accepted me such as I was. At that time, I said to myself,