There was once a villager who was very poor, so poor that he did not have enough money to pay for his daughter’s wedding and had nothing to borrow against…
Asides
This is our land and one day we’ll get it back. Memories of the Nakba.
How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely. Turning Estates into Villages.
The disappearance of a nature-filled childhood. Last Child in the Woods.
The Conservative war on road safety has begun. Tory Boy Racers.
If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there’s no justice in Britain. Land of Impunity.
Rare species named for the first time by British public. Naming the Nameless.
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Humans achieve their peak in different ways…
They flock together like ants, hurry east and west, run north and south…
Data from the FBI and state law enforcement agencies clearly show that after any well-publicized suicide, the number of fatalities from plane and car crashes rise…
Lösung (J.M. Coetzee, 'Disgrace')
2008-03-23
Sunday has come again. He and Bev Shaw are engaged in one of their sessions of Lösung.
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s…
The Buddha sought salvation in the extinction of the self; but if there is no self, what is there to be saved?...
What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden…
To calm this girl down, to get her to listen, I tell her the story about my fish…
Oh, well – he wasn’t going to write Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony anyway…
There are Many Things I'd Rather not be than Dead (Stevie Smith, 'Novel on Yellow Paper')
2006-12-16
‘A man must live.’ No, there is no compulsion. A man must die. Yes, there are many circumstances in which a man must die…
Let everything that creeps console itself, for everything that is elevated dies.