Do women gossip?
This is the title of an essay I’ve read recently by Henry Lawson. I have a great admiration for Lawson. Not only is he among the six great masters of … Continue reading
Steve Jobs: Insanely Great
Back in 1977 the great American fantasist George Lucas released one of the biggest grossing films of all time, Star Wars. He convinced a whole generation they too could be … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
