Index
These essays on mythology and religion, literature, music, history, cinema and personal obsessions are my opinions. There’s nothing sacred about them. Add your opinion, especially if you disagree with me or find an error. Like anybody’s interests, it’s a pretty eccentric collection, and, like me, growing more eccentric every day.
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- Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
- Alexander the Great
- Margery Allingham
- Alphonso: a fable for writers
- L’amant by Jean-Jacques Annaud
- American cinema a survey
- Ancient Egypt: Impressions from popular culture
- Angels and devils
- Aphrodite
- Archilochus
- The art of enjoying art
- Jean Arthur
- Eleftheria Arvanitaki
- Asian cinema a survey
- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- Astarte’s cornucopia (lives of the goddess)
- Jane Austen
- Best Sellers a survey
- The Bible
- Richard Burton
- The business of music
- The butterfly’s dream (types of faith)
- Ana Carolina
- Songs of Ana Carolina
- Chance: a dream
- Raymond Chandler
- Chara
- Jesus Christ
- Charmian Clift
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Congregation of one (practising our wisdom)
- John Conway
- Crime Story: from Sophocles to Dostoyevsky
- Crossing the divide (crosscultural evolution of ideas)
- The Crusades by Zoe Oldenbourg
- William Davis
- Death of a Thousand Cuts (the holocaust and its effects)
- Philip K Dick
- Philip K Dick’s Lies Inc
- The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K Dick
- Documentary film a survey
- Alexandre Douzans
- The Dubliners
- The Dubliners and the Revolution
- Alexandre Dumas (the father)
- Candan Erçertin
- La mama et la putain by Jean Eustache
- George Fairbrother
- Feet of clay (justification for humanity)
- Federico Fellini
- James Gammell
- The garden of Eden
- Genji Monogatari by Murasaki
- Gilgameshiad
- The good books a survey
- The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith
- The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
- Jean Harlow
- Jean Harlow’s films re-viewed
- The Big Sleep by Howard Hawks
- A heart in winter by Claude Sautet
- Helen of Troy (Bettany Hughes)
- Helen: from Sparta to Troy
- Heroes
- Hidden agendas
- Hiroshige pilgrimage in Japan and in life
- The forgotten Hitler
- Hollywood Portraits by John Kobal
- Homer
- Homo absurdus
- How I write
- Mississippi John Hurt
- Robert Irwin
- Shunji Iwai
- Jason and the argonauts
- Keltic united (music of Galicia)
- Keywords by Raymond Williams
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Joseph Knowles
- Bia Krieger
- Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa
- Ross Macdonald
- The Maias by Eça de Queiroz
- Syran M’Benza Symbiose
- Prentice Merrick
- Missing by Constantin Costa-Gavras
- Monotheism
- Mystery of the Murder Story
- Nathalie by Anne Fontaine
- Neither right nor wrong (a story)
- The 100 by Michael H Hart
- One Thousand Songs and One Song (a playlist)
- A Black and White Night: Roy Orbison 1988
- Originality
- George Orwell
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Harry Phillips
- Pablo Picasso and Antoni Gaudi
- Pioneers at Broulee NSW (almost a story)
- Pornography
- Liane de Pougy
- A question of life or death
- Satyajit Ray
- Charulata by Satyajit Ray
- The realm of Minos (Minoan Crete)
- Rekindling the sense of wonder (children’s literature)
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire
- Eric Rohmer Comedies and Proverbs
- Eric Rohmer Six Moral Tales
- Eric Rohmer Tales of the Four Seasons
- Marquis de Sade
- Sappho
- Sappho’s poetry
- science fiction
- Coline Serreau
- William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s Detour (the poems)
- Shakespeare and company (the collaborators)
- Georges Simenon
- Simenon: The Penguin Omnibuses
- Nina Simone Live at Montreux 1976
- Singers from Brazil a survey
- Songs and lyrics
- Phil Spector
- Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
- The stars our destination (astronomy and faith)
- Preston Sturges
- Junichiro Tanizaki
- Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
- The tent (a childhood story)
- Gianmaria Testa
- Three wise monkeys (portable wisdom)
- ‘Toinette: a life without love
- The Tosa diary by Ki no Tsurayuki
- Totalitarianism 1984 and after
- Travellers
- 25 Lessons I’ve Learned About Photography/Life by Lorenzo Dominguez
- Thomas Vellenoweth, the underground explore
- Robert Knowles Waters
- Ways of thought (Karen Blixen on women’s thinking)
- Weird wired world (technology and nature)
- Oscar Wilde
- Words and meanings (poetry and translation)
- Zarathustra