No plebeians here
How noble can you get? Most aristos trace back to some humble origin until they got a knighthood or some...
Toads versus rapiers
Having roundly failed to deter the advances of an Archduke by brazenly cheating him out of tens of thousands...
Time of the mind
Time and our perceptions of it fascinate me. Here Orlando comments on its strange elasticity inside the mind.
Indeed in...
Of berries and wine
Having a love of ink, the variety of its hues and the names people give them, and the chunky inventive...
Which would you choose?
I would be hard put to choose but I think I would opt to leave behind a wall where peaches...
Of damp and prolixity
Orlando reveals his bias towards the 18th (or against the 19th) century by noting the turn of the century as...
The elegant disposal of offensive documents
Remember this next time you receive an email or other document which offends you. Simply summon the footman and have...
Upright and unflinching
A touching and imaginative fictional description of the complexity of Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). Orlando is a young boy of...
Up and out at dawn
Orlando, who at this stage in her 400 year life has only quite recently woken up to find herself transformed...
A space filled to repletion
I like visual and typographical playfulness, and here in Orlando the point about economy in language is underlined not with...
A voice answering a voice?
More than just the writing of poetry, isn't writing in general often 'a voice answering a voice'?
This touching quotation...
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