Wilfred Thesiger

Seiobo There Below

 

this scented and weighted earthly land

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Seiobo There Below (New Directions 2013, tr Ottilie Mulzet) p. 212

photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44028103@N07/5598218614

Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant

Proust on common sense and common kindness

‘A book should be used and reused, it has a life, it has a message’

Improbable Libraries:  a visual journey to the world’s most unusual libraries

Alex Johnson, U. of Chicago Press 2015.

Get a life, dog!

 

 

A friend at lunch the other day reported with joy something her husband said.

Andrew O’Hagan: The Illuminations

 

 

When Gert was a schoolgirl, a couple of years ago, a posh visiting priest (escaped from the Anglicans) made the Rolls Royce argument for God as the creator of the universe.

Men to avoid

 

Neville Allsopp again

 

Neville Allsopp is still staying with us two weeks later when Uncle Jack and Auntie Moira come to Sunday lunch.

Krakow poetry project