On spherical emotions and the need for adjectives
Never thought of emotions as spherical before, but grasp the need for their many-sided expression. And the fact that emotions...
Marketing opportunity missed?
Standing on a railway platform I noticed an advert plastered on the drinks dispenser, for Evian mineral water. Clearly, the...
Diving in head first
Keats was a bold player, keeping his eye determinedly focussed on achieving enduring greatness, not on the fads and fashions...
The generous and beautiful word…
Adam Nicholson writes of a scroll Homer found rolled beneath the head of a female mummy: Hawara Homer, written on...
The magic of great stories
Coming from a superb storyteller, this comment on the secret of the Great Stories is refreshing and insightful. It has long...
All the details of the tree
A fine injunction to a writer, first to face truth and then to give unhidden all the details. Neither is...
The art of story-telling
Henry Miller is himself a wonderful writer, and this comment about a critical element of successful story-telling took me by...
Of boats and books
Another example of Steinbeck's search for a perfect writing spot, in different houses, places, times of his life, as described...
Of words, wording and eternity
Part of my blogophyte journey has been to learn about some of the technical workings of the online world, among...
Inkhorn in one hand, pen in the other
Orlando enjoys a portfolio career, as a courtier, a diplomat, a landowner, a lady under house arrest, but throughout, he-she...
Language as anchor and mooring
Heaney uses several maritime metaphors in discussing a poem set in a sea-faring culture. Here he refers to speech that...
Cretan KPIs – Key Penmanship Indicators – VII
I found this description of the stark Cretan landscape startlingly original, using good prose as a metaphor and incidentally giving...
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