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to misanthropes that the world's richest man is a white supremacist from South Africa who eggs on mindless men in black to bomb and burn...

Zeus as writhing serpent with hairy willy supervised by Zeus as lightning-wielding eagle and God (or a neighbour, or Mr Olympias) coming int...

yesterday evening in the trees below my balcony. (turn up the volume if necessary)

upon a Varaneshi ghat requires less wood than you'd suppose because of subcutaneous fat.

  Belfast (of course). and London .

“Ninety-nine percent of who you are  is invisible and untouchable.” - Buckminster Fuller Did he ever meet Carl Jung ?

while missing his penis. Perhaps it was used locally as a dildo or fecundity-charm... anyway, it was never returned. There may be others. Co...

There's not much benefit in a 'Free Press'  when all media are spineless.

is where the money is, and money is unpreventable cancer.

  More importantly:

'Evolved Capitalism' progressively isolates non-joiners on the widening margins while openly decrying solitude (if only by calling i...

 This is the story of two madmen, both are financial criminals. The first is mad with hate and revenge. He wants to destroy Iran, a nation a...

of human purposiveness is the appalling catalogue of unintended consequences - which, as we vaingloriously persevere,  lead towards the Grea...

beyond how we think . A forest is a forest, not just a Carbon Sink.

about a French word I have invented, derived from BUT = goal : BUTISME * might be a neat rendering of Purposiveness , the curse of civilisa...

The cross, the crescent and the star of David. after Najid al-Ali * Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium .

Quixotically, despite the remoteness of the possibility that my sperm would successfully assail an egg, I had the satisfaction of a vasectom...

ever on the edge of orgasm.

Insanity through capitalism. Hydration Powder. Contains no liquid. * The Westminster Shorter (Christian) Catechism: Q.  1. What is the chief...

knowledge, like information, has become a handicap. The remedy ? Turn off the tap.

that in my forties I was a better painter of portraits than Lucian Freud was at seventeen.  He disowned this early effort... ...and my port...

Never having received a smile from a wolf, I have no idea what a wolfish smile  looks like.

or a piece of fabric in a bramble ? Or a backward pupil ?

But even if it were 'unnatural'  would punishment be ' appropriate ' ?  

that some nurturers become torturers by stifling those they care about. And in a wider context, 'The Welfare State'.

As a result of obligatory Franco-Belgian food-labelling, I gather that tronk is Flemish/Dutch for log (or stump) as in a bûche or little log...

Certainly, somebody at some time told their lover not to wash for a while (assuming that washing, a recent and unhealthy fad, was possible)....

The rich can now build avatars of their dear departed and manipulate them like marionettes. Will war-lords of Ebolaland subscribe ?

There are some ideas so absurd that only humans could produce them.

may always have been a part of Education . Why is the outrage so recent ?

Poetry (and verse) too often drip honey and worse on truth to reduce and neutralise its sting. Oh! my arse goes ting-a ling-a ling...

 photo by Dmitry Ersler.

or, Capitalist reductionism by Lee Friedlander, New York, 1959

a 700-year old Arthurian manuscript .

  Oscar, Aghnabreck, Scotland.

 that we face backwards ? For every being with consciousness the only world may be, as Rilke wrote, within. So there is no 'objective re...

Slight digressions from the good cannot be avoided. - I Ching or Book of Changes (Twaddle, Stuff and Nonsense) * Probably not in the I Ching...

(just a few) have been elevator-days when I pass instantaneously  between floors from surface to surface of awareness - no keys, no doors

 

are, of course, very rare. At least one baffles botanists ... but maybe Artificial Intelligence will supply the reason... after Human Intell...

As we see the world more and more (or rather, less and less) in only two dimensions we lose our sense of wonder and of wonder's innocenc...

Oh, the blatant lies I felt I had to tell - and oh, the retrospective shame of having wanted the approval of people I would now despise.

are lived by those who know nothing.  

Getting out of bed is more inviting than coming to terms with the world and the day ahead.

Can I have twelve, please ? Delivered.

 

  photo by Harry Gruyaert

of even the most beautiful, enchanting human music - but not of birdsong.

to Anglophone Forces ? Not so much a shift as a collapse. No, the probable reason is that people are now preferring low-alcohol drinks. 11% ...