The Green Man: Myth and Reality – Imogen Corrigan
I was in the process of writing – well, researching – an idea I had for a novel. It involved various incarnations of the Green Man and probably owed more … Continue reading
Ley Lies
Map 1 1 All Mathematics would suggestA steady straight line as the best,But left and right alternatelyIs consonant with history. In his book How We Believe, Michael Shermer argues the … 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 (2) The Phantom Hitch-Hiker
Part Two – The Phantom Hitch Hiker. i. Thumbs It is 1981, and my friend Mark had just bought his first car. We would go for night drives, searching for … 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
Melancholia and the Janus Hue – Part Two
vi ‘Since the Saturnine temperament is slow, prone to indecisiveness, sometimes one has to cut one’s way through with a knife. Sometimes one ends by turning the knife against oneself.’ … 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
Crab and Bee’s Matter of Britain: Mythlands of Albion
It has been many, many years since I read ‘Matter of Britain’ and even then, it was a condensed version. It was a tough read, being mostly in mediaeval vernacular. … Continue reading
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