Saw Mike Harrison in Camden on Monday, and was advised that he’d started blogging again, but at a new address. Mike cheerfully remarked that it’d take me six hours to find it. ‘Mike Harrison Blog‘. Google is so thorough these days. Welcome back to the fold, sir. Elsewhere, the owner of a tiny island in off Scotland [...]
Waterloo Bridge. London. November 1995. A man has just fallen from the parapet of the bridge into the Thames below. His name is Matthew Ogilvy, and he has come to believe that there is something dreadfully wrong with his life, and the only way he can correct it is to die. He might be right. ‘of Clockwork Men’ [...]
I feel I should offer some words of explanation. No, that’s wrong. I believe I should offer some words of explanation. Better. Some of you out there have (however well meaningly and lightheartedly) observed that my use of ‘neoteric‘ positions my writing as deliberately highfalutin’, or just plain obscure, and I want to briefly, although seriously, address that. I [...]
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