Flood Gates:

Simone’s Notes:

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century, its influence affected literature, philosophy, art, politics, science, religion, and other aspects of intellectual inquiry. Renaissance scholars employed the humanist method in study, and searched for realism and human emotion in art. Renaissance thinkers sought out in Europe's monastic libraries and the crumbling Byzantine Empire the literary, historical, and oratorical texts of antiquity, typically written in Latin or ancient Greek, many of which had fallen into obscurity. It is in their new focus on literary and historical texts that Renaissance scholars differed so markedly from the medieval scholars of the Renaissance of the 12th century, who had focused on studying Greek and Arabic works of natural sciences, philosophy and mathematics, rather than on such cultural texts. Renaissance humanists did not reject Christianity; quite the contrary, many of the Renaissance's greatest works were devoted to it, and the Church patronized many works of Renaissance art. However, a subtle shift took place in the way that intellectuals approached religion that was reflected in many other areas of cultural life. In addition, many Greek Christian works, including the Greek New Testament, were brought back from Byzantium to Western Europe and engaged Western scholars for the first time since late antiquity. This new engagement with Greek Christian works, and particularly the return to the original Greek of the New Testament promoted by humanists Lorenzo Valla and Erasmus, would help pave the way for the Protestant Reformation. Artists such as Masaccio strove to portray the human form realistically, developing techniques to render perspective and light more naturally. Political philosophers, most famously Niccolo Machiavelli, sought to describe political life as it really was, that is to understand it rationally. A critical contribution to Italian Renaissance humanism Pico della Mirandola wrote the famous text "De hominis dignitate", which consists of a series of theses on philosophy, natural thought, faith and magic defended against any opponent on the grounds of reason. In addition to studying classical Latin and Greek, Renaissance authors also began increasingly to use vernacular languages; combined with the introduction of printing, this would allow many more people access to books, especially the Bible.

The Angels from the Heavens Sing Out:

Under Central lies the mighty flood gates.
They keep evil temptation on the outside.
But, Manami wants to break them open.
She wants to corrupt the people even more.
The virus and the drugs aren’t enough anymore.
The greed serpent wants more.
Corruption is a drug to her.
Stronger than coke and alcohol,
Hell, stronger than sex!
She had to have more of this corruption.

The waters of the pure and innocent
Flow out into the pitch underground.
Many guess where they go.
Only a little bit of tainted water can get
Into city.
The pure waters do their best to hide the tainted
Dirt at the very bottom.
Despite this,
A little dirt manages to wash into the city.
This is acceptable, however.
Most of the dirt is blocked out of the city.
However, Manami feels like Central needs
More dirt in the water.
How to do that?
The flood gates need to be opened.
But how?
The tainted water needs to be strong
Enough to knock open the gates.
But how to increase the water from the outside?
*Sigh*
Looks like more from drugging up the pets
And correcting the slaves.
Manami doesn’t mind it, however.
Just as long she gets to have fun out of the
Whole process.
That she will have.

Meanwhile back with the military and their lovers.

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