25 minutes read stories.
Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art of Numbers
Aldous Huxley
A narrator recounts the peculiar transformation of his brilliant but eccentric friend, Emberlin, after he makes a "discovery about Discoveries" stemming from a cryptic note by Ben Jonson. Emberlin's ensuing obsession with numbers and a fictional ancient artist named Eupompus leads him down a path of intellectual fanaticism, blurring the lines between profound insight and utter madness.
The Golden Calabash
When a troubled young man returns to his grandmother’s village in rural Jamaica, he discovers an ancient calabash with the power to reveal lost stories—and the truth about his own family’s buried past.