Monthly Archives: May 2015
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. Continue reading ‘A book should be used and reused, it has a life, it has a message’
Get a life, dog!
A friend at lunch the other day reported with joy something her husband said. Continue reading Get a life, dog!
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. Continue reading Andrew O’Hagan: The Illuminations
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. Continue reading Neville Allsopp again