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Category: the world of childhood

Posted on August 4, 2019

Steven D Greydanus on the subervise non-subversiveness of Phineas and Ferb

On the website of the ever-interesting Steven D Greydanus there is a piece on Phineas and Ferb, one of the many many children’s shows which are also calculated to appeal…

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Posted on July 23, 2019July 23, 2019

“Alone”, Edgar Allan Poe – read by Basil Rathbone

“Alone” By Edgar Allan Poe From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring—…

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Posted on January 19, 2019

Review of “Homesickness: An American History” by Susan Matt, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2012

This is a wonderful book I heartily recommend, indeed re-reading the review I hope the warmth of my recommendation is clear. The balance  Susan Mat strikes between mastery of the…

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Posted on November 29, 2018March 17, 2019

Poem: Magheragallon

A while back I posted a link to Non-Binary Review’s call for submissions for pieces inspired directly by Dante’s Inferno. Unfortunately (or not) my own efforts in this line were…

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Posted on November 10, 2018November 11, 2018

Fighting Talk

The power drips from the open wounds. The big guns lie silent, resting for the next time. The phantom stalks the air, peering Into the muzzles, bathing in their Dominion,…

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Posted on November 8, 2018

Nan Shepherd on going barehanded and barefooted

From “The Living Mountain”:   The hands have an infinity of pleasure in them. When I was a girl, a charming old gentlewoman said something to me that I have…

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Posted on August 12, 2018May 17, 2019

“This is the avocado game”

(edit 17th May – welcome to my page, those who have wandered here to read about the avocado game go right ahead…. and perhaps you may be interested in my …

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Posted on July 25, 2018July 25, 2018

The Go Betweens : Cattle and Cane

Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox:
What are we made of? Well, you could say we are mainly Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium and Phosphorous. Add some pinches of Potassium,…

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