Banks and Money
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. Bob Hope (1903 – 2003) Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. E....
View ArticleA Novel Question
Single Lettered Novel Titles One of the novels short-listed for this year’s Booker Prize was “C” by Tom McCarthy. It is not the first novel to be identified with a single letter. Literary Gods such as...
View ArticleMen and Women
The battle of the sexes needs to be renewed. Vive le différence. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you’re driving at another....
View ArticleMacabre Humour
I enjoy wandering through second-hand book stores. Sometimes I find genuine treasures. Unluckily, most store owners recognise the gems before I spot them. A case in point was a very expensive book I...
View ArticleLooting the Corpse
I often drop in on Melbourne artist Jennie Rosenbaum’s website yet it was her twitter entry this morning which resonated with me. I was preparing this post under the title “Goodbye Borders”. Thank you...
View ArticleFor Harry Potter Retail Therapy.
List of all the shops located in Diagon Alley: 2nd Hand Brooms: A shop that sells used broomsticks. Amanuensis Quills: A shop that sells quills. It is next to Madam Malkin’s Robes For All Occasions...
View ArticleBook Review; Pair of Dice Lost, Jeremy Ludlow
This is a volume for which I have been searching for many years. I first found a reference to it in the original Index Librorum Prohibitorum. By the fourth edition of this list, Pair of Dice Lost had...
View ArticleCthulhu Arrived
In a care package which crossed the seas, my tatty cyber-Sis Marty had enclosed a creature close to my heart. A creature from dimensions far from ours which will one day eat my soul! Although I may...
View ArticleOh The Places You’ll Go
Based on Dr. Seuss’s final book before his death, this is a story about life’s ups and downs, told by the people of Burning Man 2011. Dr Seuss and flashes of nudity are not concepts I would normally...
View ArticleThe New Idol
Some thoughts on the State by Freddy Nietzsche as written in “Also Spake Zarasthustra” Somewhere there are still people and herds, but not with us. . . . Here are states. . . . . A state is called...
View ArticleThe Peacelike Mongoose
Some decades ago there was a writer named James Thurber. He wrote many very wise words. I think he foresaw the 21st Century. IN cobra country a mongoose was borne one day who didn’t want to fight cobras...
View ArticleThoughts on Wot We Speek
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~ Jack Kerouac Who wouldn’t be confused by a language where a pastry is a sweetmeat and a pancreas is a sweetbread? ~ Anon (my favourite...
View ArticleVictor Hugo
So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine with...
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