More specifically concerning: oddity
Part the Sixth
9 July 2003, around 8.46.
Heroically, Elspeth persevered, as her Aunt Maude had always encouraged her to do. (This was the same Aunt Maude who had fallen in love with a dead Russian novelist and, whenever the radio happened to play Rachmaninov, would shake her head sadly, saying with a gentle smile, ‘oh… the Russians,’ before wandering to the kitchen […]
Curio (5)
21 January 2015, around 10.28.
‘Menschenhaupt’, Aegidius Albertinus, Hirnschleiffer.
heartbrake
16 January 2016, around 11.01.
There are only two cures for a broken heart – one preventative, one palliative. The palliative is, naturally, time, with its supporting remedies of distraction, distance, and desuetude, but in observing the course of this treatment in my friends and relations, I found that although it was, eventually, effective, by far the easiest solution is […]
curious porcelain
10 March 2023, around 4.59.
I have an excellent memory, and I always remember the next day what I would have said if my paper had been long enough. In saying this, I have no intention of making you believe that I think by rule, that my sentences are so exact that they resemble a circle, which you have no […]