Dining Out with the Ice Giants by Clare O'Beara

I mean, the city is as vibrant as ever.Ĭlare O’Beara wrote this in 2017, and the one thing that doesn’t work for me now, in 2022, are many of the tech bits. As well as night clubs, entertainment and booze. That would be Donal, then.ĭining Out on Planet Mercury creates the usual full-sensory experience of a future London suffering in the throes of climate change, immigration and general sleaze. All is revealed about halfway through – and I won’t spoil it for you!ĭonal and Myron, our intrepid journalists, are mired in the usual problems of their trade: restrictions on reporting during an election snooping security people temporarily replacing their usual staff, interviewees cancelling at the last moment… and a murder suspect needing an advocate who speaks Mercurian. It’s been an astonishingly long time since I read the other books in this series, but I looked forward to it just as much, if a little confused by the cover. This book is a standalone read in the series Dining Out Around The Solar System, and follows DINING OUT WITH THE GAS GIANTS. Can Donal and his Jafraican colleague Myron uncover the truth? With a British Parliamentary election under way, the police need to keep fear and suspicion from getting out of hand.Īt such times, not even London’s Eye reporters are safe. Off-world workers are being exploited in more ways than one. When a girl from Mercury is suspected of murder, the police need Irish journalist and hacker Donal as interpreter. Further, an androgynous image of God in human form (Kṛṣṇafor the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and Jesus for Clare and Francis) informed their understandings and focused their sacred gaze, both of which can be described as a non-sectarian way of seeing the unity of all life.Dining Out on Planet Mercury (Dining Out #4) As Beldio shows, both of these practices as lived by their founders used these aesthetic forms as means for spiritual growth towards an androgynous ideal for human fulfillment.

Dining Out with the Ice Giants by Clare O

Instead of relying solely on textual evidence, this article keys on behavioral evidence associated with visual culture, art and architecture, as well as fashion of the Integral Yoga of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and the spiritual practice of Clare and Francis of Assisi. Francis” compares and contrasts two different aesthetic uses of the “fusing androgyne” as theorized by Mircea Eliade and Wendy Doniger, which for Eliade symbolizes the “mystery of wholeness” in spiritual practice. Patrick Beldio’s “The Androgynous Visual Piety of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and St.

Dining Out with the Ice Giants by Clare O'Beara