Haunted When The Minutes Drag
3. Living Without A Future Tense There are periods when the future doesn’t frighten you. You await, eager, excited and it simply fails to turn up. The future, to the … Continue reading
Haunted When the Minutes Drag:
2. Agoraphobia Is Not a Fear of Space Agoraphobia is commonly described as a fear of open spaces. This is convenient, memorable, and deeply misleading; sort of like saying a … Continue reading
A Glossary of Bad Time
Some help terms to make my new book -Haunted When the Minutes Drag – seem attractive (possibly) A few terms that look straightforward. Mundane, sometimes everyday terms that only bite … Continue reading
Lies, Damned Lies and Archives.
i The past is fragmented and falsified. Of course, this is nothing new. Archives have been doing this since the concept of archive was first mooted but if, as a … Continue reading
Weird and Eerie (1) – Last Train To London Dark – Part Two.
xiii. Rik Rack Recumbent On a bench outside the main gate of King’s Cross Station, I see a familiar face. Rik Rack has poured himself into a solid wooden bench … Continue reading
Weird and Eerie (1) – Last Train From London Dark – Part One.
i ‘The form that is most appropriate to the weird,’ says Fisher, ‘is the montage; hence the preference within surrealism for the weird combinations.’ (Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie, … Continue reading
Melancholia and the Janus Hue – Part One
i ‘To attempt to write a guide to such an amorphous concept as melancholy is overwhelmingly impossible, such is the breadth and depth of the topic, the disciplinary territories, the … Continue reading
All this and Soft Play, too… (On Self Editing)
I’ve been asked to illustrate a point about ‘self-editing,’ in terms of agoraphobia. The answer is that I can’t. Not directly, anyway. The problem with agoraphobia, as I mention in … Continue reading
Nostalgia (Part Two)
iii My formative years were founded in the temporary – moving towns far too frequently to establish any kind of stability or peer group – and I find myself often … Continue reading
NOSTALGIA (Part One)
Nostalgia was originally ‘discovered’ as an often-debilitating condition by Johannes Hofer in 1688. (Hofer, 1934) He was a medical student and observed a depressed behaviour among Swiss Mercenaries working away … Continue reading
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