Tuesday, 10 December 2013

A quick aside on Modernist poets

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There is something annoying about ‘footnote’ poets: Eliot, Pound, Yeats; that is, Modernism packed with obscure references. I recently re...

Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924)

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Have you ever visited a relative in a convalescent home and ended up falling ill yourself and staying there for years? Nor have I, but that...
Monday, 14 October 2013

On the impossibility of correlating an objective criticism of art with a subjective appreciation

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Although all great art is truly great in itself, only some of it is, at different times and for different people, like a key which fits a l...
Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Writing: show or tell?

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Shena Mackay tells us a lot of information in her short stories. I was always of the opinion that ‘show, don’t tell’ means that you revea...
Friday, 20 September 2013

Why I hate the Glass Bead Game

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Games are designed to stimulate the mind. Chess has proved a long-lasting, peaceful substitute to, and simulation of, the brutal necessitie...
Friday, 26 July 2013

Meddling medical men meld made-up memories to mice's minds, may make man-as-memory moot

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Link  here  to a report on scientists introducing false memories in mice. Of course, erasing memories for sufferers of PTSD is progress, b...
Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Fry up on bathetic British banknote bust-up; campaigners kick off, crow about Equality Act infraction

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Utterly mental. Link here . Let's just stick abstract shapes on them and have done with it. Let's erase Darwin and Smith and Hublon ...