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 Coyote stopped to drink at a big lake and saw his reflection.  “Now there’s a really good-looking coyote,”  he said, leaning farther over....

my Alstrœmeria psittacina, or Parrot Lily, now in bloom and spreading.

uses a great new term to describe outrageous, unstoppable, monopolistic economic warlordism: Technofeudal .

that Man is made of belief. Henry Ford didn't believe in history. Some people's beliefs are very precise, bizarre, their origins a m...

with cluster of eggs. photo by Peter McGee

 

suggests that We should live each day as if it were the last , 'without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.' But how about try...

 

of Sensual Liberation : Scrotum-nuzzling for Beginners. Weekend Courses for all sexes. Redolent Prices.

Radiant Pessimism .

but Triton plays the flute very nicely... to an important  Why-don't-you-stop-now?   sea-nymph . Musée Raimond, Toulouse.

The U.S. Ambassador to Greece   Not quite à-propos, Hannah Arendt's tired and superficial phrase should have read: The apparent banalit...

'Please rescue me from my grotesque and cruel metamorphosis by a wicked wizard.'

Man does not appreciate the dark, and thus produced the Hydrogen Bomb.

I am in the front row of social breakdown (and mixed metaphor), indulging in the lunacy of "personal journalling" for 17 years.  ...

"This man slept by a fire in Spitalfields market, very close to the City of London, which generates billions and billions of pounds f o...

Gap Im Hong goldfish in a pond in Ottawa.

1. After Basho November night has paled, slowly disintegrating into dawn, dank and cold. 2. Inspired by Issa Another dayb rrrr eak. Fog fro...

what were The Seven Pillars of Wisdom that was the title of T.E. Lawrence's famous book. And it may be that they were the supports of th...

Of course it can't last. The real doomsday event internet experts still worry about is a sudden, snowballing error in the decades-old pr...

in a bomb-crater, Mostar, Bosnia.  

to state that Young was genetically predisposed to being abused. Doctors are no more trustworthy than police. possibly-the-most-prolific-se...

the edited letters of Evelyn Waugh, stylish and amusing English novelist... came across this from 1948 : 'I am reading Proust for the fi...

Edward Jenner's laboratory/shed where he demonstrated and proved (1796) that inoculation with the blister-pus of cowpox 'vaccinated...

I guess it's at least ten years since I was invited to dinner, maybe five since I entertained anyone here. Before that, I received or wa...

Who types with one finger not two, just one finger. His skin has the beautiful hue of dark chocolate. He is even less competent than the las...

/not funny at all : what people will rush or just bother to do "for their country" - things they would never do for each other.  A...

even when they have a literature which is a thousand years old.

about  men not wearing underpants.  Long-johns are, of course, essential in winter. But if men wore sensible clothing, such as a djellaba, ...

 

the Afghan birth-place of  Mawlānā Jalal ad-Din Rūmī Balkhi , known more widely as Rumi . photo by Atif Ariyan

Walking just 4,000 daily steps once a week cuts risk of early death in older people, study suggests... Which is why I (always seceding and ...

 250 metres from my house.

 November house-fly delights in home-made yogurt just as much as I.

  "I gave up small talk for a month – and the world came alive." Being somewhere 'on the A-Spectrum' , I am incapable of s...

This is probably typical of waste-bins in European cities , but not in small towns and villages. In my French village there are special comp...

Mais « l'enfer c'est les autres » a été toujours mal compris. On a cru que je voulais dire par là que nos rapports avec les autres é...

“ Szalay has written a novel about The Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive,” wrote Keiran Goddard in a  Guardian rev...

Beauty and Death: between them pain and its infliction.

Message in a bottle:

 

I have had gas hobs since 1970 and a closed wood-burning stove since 2006. For sixty years before that, I lived with had open coal fires and...

Mr Hockney, a celebrity painter of moderate talent and little originality, despises his 'public' and insults his hallowed predecesso...

(where I was for three months in 1960, while the Algerian war of independence was raging) China, Viêt-Nam, and Prague : protesters who set t...

"Epstein and Maxwell began lending me out to their friends." – Virginia Giuffre   "As I left that night, I felt that familiar...

'It's not the despair, Laura. I can stand the despair. It's the hope.' John Cleese in Clockwise , 1986.

then you get to believe your invention,' wrote John le Carré. But most of us are at least partly invented by at least one other's wi...