Three Rays of Light: Shakespeare, Twain, Hemingway

Let there be light.

Prologue

This piece carries the light of imagination, the weight of experience, and the clarity of deliberate words. Readers are invited to bask in the warmth of sunshine, embracing all that follows with openness, reflection, and wonder.

The Source of Light

Art, Imagination, and Human Insight flows from a blazing sun that rises in the East —

Shakespeare’s sun, timeless and radiant, honored by civilizations from Egypt to the Inca, from Greece to Japan.

Its rays shine across America, reflecting Twain’s warmth, humor, and truth, using the natural world as a telescope.

Through Hemingway’s eyes, those rays reach the farthest rivers, the ice fields at the Northern and Southern Poles releasing their icebergs to the oceans, and horizons — clarity in extremes, strength in simplicity.

Suspended around this life-giving sun, once honored as a god by civilizations across the ages, planets circle in steady orbit, each tracing its path, bound by invisible threads of gravity — a quiet testament that order, rhythm, and life flow from the eternal Source.

These three rays of light travel at speeds we sense but rarely name — faster than a bullet train, swifter than a stealth fighter jet, quicker than sound itself, carrying immediacy and the reflection of divine grace, touching the heart in the very moment they arrive. These are the rays of Shakespeare, Twain, and Hemingway.

Shakespeare’s Light

The first ray rises with imagination and emotion. A whisper of wind, a tremor of a heart, a curl of a smile—all poetry in motion, echo of a light that once rose over Stratford.

Mark Twain’s Light

The second ray flows with wit and observation. Tales of life, humor, and humanity interweave, guiding thought and heart alike, connecting the everyday with the eternal.

Hemingway’s Light

The third ray reaches Earth, a fracture of icebergs echoing from the ice fields across polar waters and coastal shores. The third ray of light is absorbed.

Hemingway’s light moves with simplicity, the weight of experience, the clarity of a single deliberate word, lighting up all who ride his burning light.

The Convergence

Together, these three rays remind us that the sun is one — that creativity, observation, and the human spirit are inseparable from the Source.

Shakespeare, Twain, and Hemingway shine through imagination, humanity, and simplicity. Each ray has its path, each heart has its light. And in reading, in writing, in living, we become mirrors, reflecting these rays into the world.

Sometimes, even beneath the blazing sun, the earth calls for rain — to replenish, to cleanse, to dance with the light. In the old days, people worshipped the sun and prayed for rain at the same time, honoring both life-giving power and life-sustaining mercy.

And from the union of sun and rain, the three rays converge to form a rainbow — a subtle reminder of God’s promise, a covenant of grace stretching across the heavens, touching hearts, warming the soul, and guiding all who bask in the light, just like turtles on a log.

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Stratford-upon-Avon holds deep literary and cultural significance because it’s the birthplace and burial place of William Shakespeare — the greatest playwright and poet in the English language.