Month: February 2021

Written by Colin Blundell

LIVING BY ZEN (R16)


  “What’s that you’re reading now?” said Euphemia.“It’s called Living by Zen by DT Suzuki.”“It’s a bit late for that, isn’t it?” she said.I missed her point till it caught up with me a bit later. She meant that in my 84th year there wasn’t much time left to put whatever advice it might contain […]

Written by Colin Blundell

THE BRIDGE BETWEEN (R14)


For the whole of 2020, I was reading the works of JBPriestley. I found that a familiar pattern in his novel writing went like this:- • First you imagine what’s going on ‘elsewhere’ • Then you endow it with something more wonderful than could ever be the case • Then you realise it couldn’t be […]