Novel Update
I got the revised proof back yesterday. Apart from the slight ‘indent’ problem on the dedications page as seen above, it was bloody gorgeous! Except… when I gave the okay … Continue reading
Love, Death and the Crucial Three Update.
The proof arrived, and I wasn’t happy. Word was being weird (who’d’ve thunk), and although everything looked fine on the doc. There were enormous gaps in the text and often … Continue reading
Is this thing on?
So…my last post was back in April. That’s… not great. In my defence, I got post-PhD fatigue and could not bear the idea of writing. I had a couple of … Continue reading
Ardnamurchan: The Distance Between Us.
And so, after half a century, I finally make it back to Ardnamurchan. It is both a moment of triumph and a moment of disappointment. Part of the disappointment is … 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
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
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 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
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