Last night, having just finished reading a book that took me quite a long time to read & digest, I pulled a book off the shelves of my library that I knew would be a quick read by contrast. I read it some time ago; I like its style and the style of its companion […]
While reading the prose of some writers, poems seem to leap off the page at you… Hilaire Belloc is one such great writer that does it for me… *** humankind will have pomp & mystery to surround seemingly important things; therefore the historians must (consciously or not) tend to strut to quote solemn authorities in […]
Think for a moment about these words: ambition, anger, fear, love, excitement, enthusiasm, energy, intention, attitude, consolation, desire… Those will do for a start. What do they have in common? Yes, they’re all words that have the appearance at least of referring to things that are supposed to go on in the inner workings of […]
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