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Posted on February 21, 2019

You are not alone: the word “sonder”

I recently came across the word “sonder” Coined in 2012 by John Koenig, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that…

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Posted on September 6, 2018September 6, 2018

Did Captain Molesworth Lose His Bet? … what happened

Following on from last week: “Captain Molesworth had a bright idea – he would play another round. He did this seventh round in 104 strokes and argued that he had…

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Posted on September 3, 2018

“there is no one these days, absolutely no one, who still looks like what he should look like, for we use our heads even more impersonally than our hands.”

From The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil   Walter was frustrated. He searched, he wavered. Suddenly he burst out: “He is a man without qualities!” “What’s that?” J Clarisse asked, with…

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Posted on August 30, 2018August 30, 2018

Did Captain Molesworth lose his bet?

From Andrew Ward’s Golf’s Strangest Rounds: “At 5.20a.m. on a September morning Captain Molesworth set out for a busy day at the Royal North Devon Golf Course. To win his…

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Posted on August 1, 2018July 28, 2018

August in the first Antarctic Night

Through the First Antarctic Night”,  or to give it’s full title, “Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899: A Narrative of the Voyage of the Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands and…

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Posted on July 30, 2018July 26, 2018

“The Driver”, winner of Molly Keane Memorial Creative Writing Award 2010

It was a privilege to receive this award in 2010 in Lismore, via the auspices of Waterford County Council, and to hear the kind words from Molly Keane’s daughter at…

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Posted on July 31, 2017July 31, 2017

“Something terrifying and majestic at the same time” – From “Broken April’, Ismail Kadare

Without the knocking at the door, everything would be so different that at times he was afraid to think of it, and he consoled himself with the notion that perhaps…

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Posted on July 29, 2017July 29, 2017

Laptop Warriors – on the “Stealing the Network” series. SAU Blog, October 2007

As it stands, my last contribution to the Social Affairs Unit blog is this piece on two novels written by (firstly) Ryan Russell, Tim Mullen (Thor), FX, Dan “Effugas” Kaminsky, Joe Grand, Ken…

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