Writing to kick up your heels
Having just re-read Virginia Woolf's Orlando after a third-of-a-century hiatus, I revelled in the liveliness and playfulness of both the...
Of berries and wine
Having a love of ink, the variety of its hues and the names people give them, and the chunky inventive...
Of damp and prolixity
Orlando reveals his bias towards the 18th (or against the 19th) century by noting the turn of the century as...
Which would you choose?
I would be hard put to choose but I think I would opt to leave behind a wall where peaches...
People to go with the furniture
Orlando goes on a massive interior design spree, lavishing huge expense on new furniture and other luxuries for the 365...
Toads versus rapiers
Having roundly failed to deter the advances of an Archduke by brazenly cheating him out of tens of thousands...
No plebeians here
How noble can you get? Most aristos trace back to some humble origin until they got a knighthood or some...
On the Elizabethans and book learning
I have no idea if this is a fair appraisal of the Elizabethan stance on book learning, but I have...
Sickle and circular
What a beautifully fresh alliteration for the usual 'wax and wane' of the moon.
'He saw the moon sickle and...
Disseverment
The noun of 'dissever', to divide or sever something from something else. Also 'disseverance'.  Used here in reference to a...
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