From “The Transfinite Codex”
The Transfinite Codex From the Introduction The Infinite Annex is an annex of this library which consists entirely of infinite stories. The annex, via the use of an innovative filing…
From “A Practical Guide to Time Travel” by Brendan McConnell
From “A Practical Guide to Time Travel” by Brendan McConnell, page 132 … What they don’t tell you about time travel is the emotional dislocation. I suppose my voyage, undertaken…
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…
Everyone loves a rogue
Messing around with WordPress’s “Pages” feature, I have created a page devoted to my posts on “rogues” (broadly defined … probably I should just say “eccentrics”) Anyway, here it is
“the culture of the Mechanics’ Institute”
Reading John Buchan’s “The Island of Sheep”, the last of (and the best of) the Richard Hannay novels, I came across this arresting passage (spoken by Sandy Arbuthnot on his…
“Carbon dioxide should be regarded the same way we view other waste products” – Klaus Lackner and changing minds on carbon
This Elizabeth Kolbert article from the New Yorker on carbon capture is a few months old, but still well worth reading. It is sobering to read how many of the…
Music for a Heatwave: Bax, Honegger, Delius
“Summer Music”, Arnold Bax . Pastoral a l’ète, Arthur Honegger https://open.spotify.com/track/0hDA9MbcHvBpY9ukNTPoed?si=8iGa mQkLRyCu2NeFK_izIQ Frederick Delius, ‘A Song of Summer”
Where are all the hedgehogs?
I have posted quite a few hedgehog posts. This is perhaps as they are frequent garden visitors/residents. Or were, it seems. So far in 2018 I have not seen a…
Séamus Sweeney 