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Posted on July 4, 2018

Aphorisms (for an age beyond Aphorisms), Bert Gallagher

Aphorisms (for an age beyond Aphorisms), Or, Reflections of an obsolete headshrinker by Bert Gallagher MB BCh BAO MRCPsych Published in what the author insists be referred to as the…

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Posted on June 19, 2018

The “lazy and indifferent” heron of “Monday or Tuesday”, Virginia Woolf

The only short story collection that she had selected in her lifetime, “Monday or Tuesday” is a 1921 collection in which she pursued the approach to writing set out in…

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Posted on May 23, 2018May 22, 2018

More random quotes from WikiQuote

A while ago I posted 10 random quotes from WikiQuote. I don’t make any great claims for this, perhaps some juxtapositions thrown up by this method may be interesting, perhaps…

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Posted on May 19, 2018May 19, 2018

In July my father went to take the waters

In July my father went to take the waters and left me, with my mother and elder brother, a prey to the blinding white heat of the summer days. Just…

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Posted on November 4, 2017

Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen?

Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the birds cry…

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Posted on August 2, 2017August 2, 2017

“The story-within-a-story done right” : review of “The World House”, Guy Adams, SF Site 2010

Original here. Despite my enthusiasm here – and what I wrote in the penultimate paragraph – I didn’t read any of the succeeding books in this series. I was never,…

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Posted on March 30, 2017

Review of “Love in Vain”, Lewis Shiner, SF Site 2010

Another Ticonderoga Publications review, following the review of “Ghost Seas” by Steven Utley of the prior post, here is a review of Lewis Shiner’s Love in Vain. Lewis Shiner  is an interesting writer – I…

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Posted on March 26, 2017March 26, 2017

Review of Greatest Uncommon Denominator #6, Summer 2010, SF Site

Following reposting my review of GUD#5 here is my review of GUD#6. Following this I had interesting correspondence with Lou Antonelli and Jim Pascual Agustin Following my review of GUD Issue 5, it…

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