Speaking and Talking
Fit asfor a fiddle I’ve become sensitised to clichés lately. It came from reading an essay by Charmian Clift called “The Cliché in Everyday Life”, which is a reflection on […]
Ground control to Major Tom
Do you know the 1969 song Space Oddity by David Bowie? “Ground control to Major Tom, your circuits dead, there’s something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom?” Sometimes a […]
Shakespeare’s Self
I recently came across the theory that Christopher Marlowe wrote the plays of Shakespeare, after having faked his own death and seen ‘himself’ buried. This was a new theory to […]
Not the novelist in your life, but the life in your novelist
I’ve just finished reading an enormous work over 1,000 pages, Lives of the Novelists: a history of fiction in 294 lives, short biographies of novelists writing in English by John […]
Local heroes
Ned Kelly by Chris Rawlins It seems like every culture has its heroes. They represent qualities each culture values. A look at some heroic figures reveals the values are not […]
Ill wind blows good
Have you ever had a conversation with neighbours or strangers about the weather? I’m sure you have. We all have. It could be described as a definition of ‘human’, to […]
Coming to Our Senses
The world we don’t see, animals invisible except through a scanning electron microscope. (Steve Gschmeissner at http://izismile.com/2010/03/10/the_wonders_of_the_electron_microscope_12_pics.html). This creature lives in our bodies without us being aware one of the […]
