The Stepping Stones to Eternity — from Flowering Poverello
From the Flowering Poverello blog, a poetry sequence which, for some reason, especially resonated. I will let it speak for itself, except the resonance began with the opening lines “I…
Category: labyrinth
“From birthday to death-day we continue to collect and weave together the materials of our minute private universe, as a bird builds its nest “
From the always interesting First Known When Lost here is a post with a wonderful piece of 0rose (rather than poetry, FKWL’s usual beat) by Walter de la Mare: “As…
Review of “Kafkaesque” edited by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly, SF Site, 2012
I previously blogged a shorter piece, adapted from this review, on Kafka and alternate history. Here is a full review of what was an enjoyable book to read, : “Kafkaesque”…
Extinct in Ireland, September 23rd, the North Atlantic right whale
Pádraic Fogarty lists the North Atlantic right whale or Nordcapper (also known as the Northern Right Whale) as one of the mammals extinct in Ireland since human habitation here: Regularly…
Photographs of Jorge Luis Borges in Palermo, 1984, by Ferdinando Scianna
I came across this wonderful photo by Fernandino Scianna on twitter: Jorge Luis Borges by Ferdinando Scianna pic.twitter.com/A8JSHHq98C — Daniel Brami (@DanielBrami1) May 30, 2018 It turns out that on…
From “Quest for God in the Work of Borges”, Annette U. Flynn
I recently started this book by UCD Lecturer Annette U Flynn. Her biography is worth noting and outlines a winding if not forking path into academia: I grew up…
Happy #WorldLabyrinthDay 2018
Happy World Labyrinth Day! : Celebrate the 10th Annual World Labyrinth Day on May 5, 2018 and join over 5,000 people taking steps for peace, ‘Walking as One at 1’ in the afternoon.…
Séamus Sweeney 