The thought that evades thinking in the hasty sketch she had made - a series of vague gestures in the air rather than an artefact, yet...
The coming revolution...? Abolition of the monarchy. Free public transport, free education, free healthcare, universal basic income....
It's the same sea, but a different shore. A creaking timber trod on from an imperceptibly different angle. This business of accumulation,...
Everything is provisional, resolutions are transitory and instable, but like leaves in the wind, captivating. A penchant for...
... for poetry or literature, and only minimally for life, once you are given a start. Yet there are the codes that bind. Sociology, or...
Could a slogan escape the bounds of tawdry mundanity, the dull repetitiveness of advertising hoardings, resentful tweets , suburban...
Not a slogan but a mantra... A mantra rather than a slogan, and the role of habit in the genesis of the former, the part this contrast...
He watered the plants, and thought to himself by extension: water everything else., including yourself. Unfortunately a number of...
Waiting for a new dawn to emerge over the dull, misty horizon, impatient and panicky even, anxious that it's taking too long. The noble...
'Reserve' can refer to a person's character or behaviour or, as in (having) 'reservations' to a hidden cognitive response. Either way,...
Oh damn, but the world now is too sad. He means the political world, I guess, the anguish of those caught up beyond choice in suicide...
The absurdity of being genuinely dampened and undone by the appalling bagatelle that is paid employment. When you could be kept busy...
Already, the intention is wearing away - the fleetingness of desire; a habit is something else, habits that harness and renew desire are...
Closing the gap between the submerged enormities and the superficially painful farce of getting by. The search for sentences becomes a...
I am unlikely to be anyone's ancestor. Does this contribute to my intellectual paralysis? It is easy to imagine, as you put one foot on...
We begin with a bridge, or rather discover a bridge, or perhaps we build bridges where none are needed. The time between wakefulness and...
Coetzee, J. (2003) Elizabeth Costello. London: Vintage. Herrara, Y. (2015) Signs Preceding the End of the World, trans. L. Dillman....
'Over the door was a sign that said Verse. She tried to remember how to say verse in any of her tongues but couldn't. This was the only...
(22.8.21) Protestantism at Kilkeel; Catholicism (/postcatholicism) at Carlingford at 6 euro ferry return over the Lough. A universe of...
