Saturday, 26 October 2019

Variation on a Theme by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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‘Man is a fish that swims in its own sperm.’               Imagine then a clean white linen napkin wound firmly round an eel so muscular ...
Monday, 21 October 2019

Miss Emily Dickinson Communes with the Great Dictator Mr John Milton . . .

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‘Do you ever yearn,’ she was asked, on a whim, ‘to have been first born  to  that Master of the Poem?’ ‘D aughter of blind Milton?...
Friday, 18 October 2019

Shabby Chic – Choicest Colourways. The Bare Necessaries to Furnish a Cell for Solitude and Repose. Hadrian VII and Des Esseintes Share Know-How.

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Drab. Drab is, actually, a colour. It’s a dull, shabby, light brown.  A Subfusc Aesthetic.  And let’s not forget that it is from gr...

O Fruit of that Forbidden Tree whose Mortal Taste Brought All Our Woe . . .

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     . . . or did they misunderstand   and neither heard the rattle  of a serpentine warning when Eve thrust the apple  into Adam’s ha...
Friday, 4 October 2019

A Young Girl Dressed Deeply in Black.

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‘The finding of the missing girl was due to disciplined legwork,’ the Police Commander leading the investigation into the unnamed teenager’s...
Sunday, 22 September 2019

Et vocavit Adam nomen uxoris suæ, Eva . . . de ligno autem scientiæ boni et mali ne comedas.

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She gave him the apple merely to  sweeten his breath. According to Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man, scholar of Torah and Kabbalah, we shou...
Monday, 2 September 2019

The Art of Humdrum Angst . . . Dream-like Displacement Activity as Wish-Fulfilment in Popular Fiction.

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In The Interpretation of Dreams ( Die Traumdeutung 1899), Sigmund Freud examines subconscious desires revealed by dream symbolism, in whi...