The final hand-in deadline for my MA course is at the start of September, and effectively that will end my two years as a mature student. I enjoyed the classes, the cameraderie with classmates, and the access to university facilities,…
I found this quotation about novel-writing from E.L. Doctorow and immediately liked it. It reminded me of a car journey I once made, when I was a PhD student. I needed to return to Newcastle, but there was a very heavy fog; I didn't realise how heavy, until I got out of town…
Les miroirs feraient bien de réfléchir davantage.…
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature…
Finding the source of a quotation has always been a problem. Before the internet, if a quotation wasn't in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, you had little chance of tracking it down unless you were a journalist or an academic…
Peace is the only battle worth waging. -Albert Camus…
DELIRIUM: What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago? DREAM: There isn't one. DELIRIUM: Oh. I…
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. (Maya Angelou)…
Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. (Homer: “The Illiad”)…
“The living soul has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom.” D.H.Lawrence…
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde…