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Posted on April 24, 2019April 23, 2019

“The Thing I Am”, Jorge Luis Borges

From The Paris Review online: I have forgotten my name. I am not Borges (Borges died at La Verde, under fire) Nor am I Acevedo, dreaming of battle, Nor my…

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Posted on January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

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”…

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Posted on October 22, 2018

#inktober2018 efforts for #guarded and #spell #inktobertipperary

The whole point of #Inktober is to draw and share … which I have failed to do a) by not keeping up and b) by being not very good at…

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Posted on May 30, 2018May 30, 2018

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…

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Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

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…

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Posted on May 5, 2018

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.…

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Posted on February 26, 2018

“Democracy is a thing which is always breaking down through the complexity of civilisation” – GK Chesterton, Allan Massie and complexity

. As I have recently written, I am reading a collection of Allan Massie’s Life and Letters columns from the Spectator, which is full of shrewd judgments. In particular there…

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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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