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dysnomia...: Mixing metaphors
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Monday, 12 March 2012. How strange for the world to have turned. And be facing the other way again. Why do we sleep through these great rotations? The night sky sometimes likes a good conversation,. And gives me plenty of time to speak before thinking. Have I slept through the great rotation? Recently on the publication of her first collection of poems,. Rachael Boast quotes from Joseph Brodsky:. When poems seem clean and neat, that's because there's been enough preparation'. 13 March 2012 at 14:00.
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dysnomia...: Season of mists
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Thursday, 15 September 2011. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too -'. English poets have always been bewitched by autumn. Shakespeare, Keats, Browning and Blake, Clare and Rossetti, dozens of others - they have all turned their pens to sonnets and odes in honour of this most poetic of seasons. They have personified it, as Keats does above:. Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells.'. Autumn is ripe for poetry because of the way it assaults our se...
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dysnomia...: The importance of being startled
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Saturday, 7 July 2012. The importance of being startled. Surprise is everything with me. When I go to bed at night I give myself instructions to startle myself when I wake in the morning.'. Ray Bradbury from the Afterword to. Reading or, better still, being read Ray Bradbury as a youngster was always a wide-eyed, white-knuckle ride. First get their attention! Something Wicked This Way Comes. It was a pleasure to burn.' The six word opening sentence of. Has surely become one of the most celebrated in scie...
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dysnomia...: Facing up to cyclone Friedhelm
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Saturday, 10 December 2011. Facing up to cyclone Friedhelm. Cyclone Friedhelm. Image from Wiki Commons. Suck Anish Kapoor's bottomless vortex. 11 December 2011 at 17:05. 17 December 2011 at 08:44. A second storm of similar ferocity followed on earler this week, resulting in much the same travel disruption due to high winds and snow. Oddly it received nothing like the level of media coverage of Friedhelm. I am very pleased you like them though. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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dysnomia...: A showcase for relics
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Sunday, 30 October 2011. A showcase for relics. Ask those generic creatures the man-and-woman-in-the-street to name the famous attractions of Paris and the list is likely to be succinct and predictable. Saint-Chapelle probably won't feature in the top ten, but in a city endowed with so many riches it may well stand as the finest of them all. 30 October 2011 at 10:56. Or to make the building more holy - by somehow sprinkling the architecture with interpretations of Biblical stories and the saints lives?
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dysnomia...: The end of a day
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Sunday, 27 November 2011. The end of a day. I offer these pictures with love to my dearest friend J. Yesterday her mother died after a long and, at times, bloody-minded battle with illness. J has flown over the sea to be with her. The end of a day is not the end of all days. 28 November 2011 at 22:41. Thank you - erudite, sensitive, poetic - and your images are breath-taking. When are you going to publish a book? 30 November 2011 at 22:11. Theres a thought. A book about what, I wonder? The end of a day.
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dysnomia...: Eye to eye with an eagle
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011. Eye to eye with an eagle. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.'. Matthew ch6 v23 (King James Bible). Golden Eagle. Her heavy brows protect her eyes against wind. And dust, giving a characteristic penetrating stare. It is a question that is almost impossible to answer without making comparisons with our own eyesight. High speed killer. Aerial strikes by a Saker Falcon at 200mph. Not windows to the soul then, ...
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dysnomia...: A ring of bright mushrooms
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Monday, 19 September 2011. A ring of bright mushrooms. Gavin Maxwell was left unimpressed by chanterelles. In. Ring of Bright Water. He recounts them growing in profusion near C amusfeàrna, the fictitious name he gave to. His home in the West Highlands. But he describes them as insipid and flavourless, not worth the bother of collecting,. Their beauty but skin-deep, more appropriate to the magic of moss and fern and rushing water than to the table.'. Mostly chanterelles and a few edible boletus. Suum cui...
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dysnomia...: Out with a bang
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Saturday, 10 September 2011. Out with a bang. So, summer 2011 goes out with its traditional bang. It won't be long before next season's programmes start arriving through my letterbox. All those things to choose from and all on my doorstep. That's something I hope never to grow complacent or nonchalant about. 10 September 2011 at 17:05. 11 September 2011 at 08:54. Hello Madzia. I havent seen you in dysnomia. for a while. Welcome back! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
