Where place and time meet
Russell Hoban's is one of the most imaginative, limpid novels I have ever read. Maps loom large in it, real...
Of time and tenses II
Another angle on language and how it shapes or at least influences our perception of time. Here Adam Nicolson discusses...
Time-free flight
Like his daughter Athena, time stops where he’s concerned. Time-free flight – perhaps one day we will master that too,...
New-peeled light
Like a fresh, dazzling morning after a long night, a new lease of life, an awakening … I like this...
It will do what it is supposed to do
Listening time: 7 minutes. This marvelous prose-poem comes from a travel book by the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski,...
Man in a hurry
Jesus lays out a few ground rules to Judas whom, it seems, could have done with a dose of
Time of the mind
Time and our perceptions of it fascinate me. Here Orlando comments on its strange elasticity inside the mind.
Indeed in...
A visitation from a minor god
The past is a place which enriches me in almost all I do, and I love travelling there as much...
As softly as …
What a place, what a time, the two idyllic years Durrell spent in Rhodes after the war. His account is...
Of time and water
A heartening description of time as the great irrigator of the world. See another such ripening interpretation by Kazantzakis.
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Of great men and kindness
An interesting take on greatness as an obstacle to kindness, since kindness requires swerving from your path. Something to think...
Mule meets Hamlet
Grossman has a wonderful capacity to imagine the minds and feelings of animals, and while chronicling the horrors of man's...
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