Saying what you think and writing how you want
This, in particular the second part, resonated with me. In an age where Search Engine Optimization sometimes seems to want...
Like silver-headed nails
Dots and gleams of silver brightness resembling nails? This is an unusual image.
'The road shone like silver-headed nails...'
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On growing up
An interesting definition of growing up - losing your illusions. But then humanly allowing the possibility that you will acquire...
Spectre-pale beech
Orlando has a candid relationship with her often absent husband Bonthrop. He visits when he can, and sometimes when he's...
Like underwear on a washing line
Two things caught my attention: firstly, the way a small, single, commonplace action, such as sitting down and preparing to...
Dust-choked gullet
A grasshopper's whirr, trilled from his 'dust-choked gullet', being interpreted by the hearer, as the green creature builds and reinforces...
Of berries and wine
Having a love of ink, the variety of its hues and the names people give them, and the chunky inventive...
Tent-shaped sides
This tent-like landscape reminds me of the Costa Rican volcano in Arenal which also looks as if a volcanic shake...
Slung like an orange
A rare sight in London - the sun slung in the sky like a blood orange, let alone hanging from...
Shorter but longer
This pithy summary of the difference between prose and poetry is as much as Orlando gleans from the convoluted accounts...
Dead or alive?
This marvelously stark encounter with a dark stranger proves to be Orlando's first meeting with the man she will marry. ...
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