As Though They Had Been Flooded With Light
When Mikhail Bulgakov died in 1940, at the same age and of the same kidney ailment as his father, his works effectively died with him. The Great Soviet Experiment did not encourage wide release of his...
View ArticleWe Need Few Words To Express The Essential
Polonius would have been right at home on Twitter. “Brevity is the soul of wit” he advises King Claudius and his Queen Gertrude, following up with “…I will be brief. Your noble son is mad” Whoa. Your...
View ArticleYou Know, Albert, Your Trouble Is That You Can’t Count
Resilience is making a comeback. It was always a trait, and it used to be a culture. Even 50 years ago, a person was encouraged to (metaphor advisory) bounce back, dust off, get their act together and...
View ArticleWish You Were Here
How many times have you said it? Or written it down? Or, more likely, just thought it? It’s about people, places, the past, and you. You remember that time you went up to SinCity or Brissie with your...
View ArticleIf It Were Not For Reality
When Gary Larson retired in 1995, the world became a poorer place. Everyone has their favourite cartoon. Mine is the look-alike Freudian psychiatrist carefully writing in his imposing notebook while a...
View ArticleWell Then, Give Me Your Pain
I’m not sure that anyone reads Lou Salome, or about Lou Salome, anymore. The peripatetic Russian psychoanalyst and feminist, born in 1861, was linked to famous men of her age, including Ree, Nietzsche,...
View ArticleIt Seemed About A Hundred Years Ago
Barlo loved that smell. Feeckoh Plus Bowel Treatment, with “attenuated donor E.coli”. He sprinkled a bit more of the green powder on his insect muesli. “Oh My, Yipes” he said aloud, poured on the...
View ArticleMust Be The One Whose Magic Touch Can Change Your Mind
The Walrus and the Carpenter had eaten all the oysters. Alice is confident about which character she prefers. Or is she? “I like the Walrus best,” said Alice, “because you see he was a little sorry for...
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