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W. H. Hudson [1841 – 1922]
♦ Read this story comprising Gerald Durrell‘s 1990 edition «Best Dog Stories«
He was of mixed breed, and was supposed to have a strain of Dandy Dinmont blood which gave him his name. A big ungainly animal with a rough shaggy coat of blue-grey […]
¤ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, a supporter of women’s rights and an advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted […]
[1914-1953]←
⇔ A Child’s Christmas in Wales⇐
◊ A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas, accompanied by some pictures of Thomas and the part of Wales where he grew up ↓
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•→ ‘SKELETON WOMAN AND THE HUNTER’ [Hopis’ legend]
♦ This Inuit legend tells of an unlikely love story between a young fisherman and a ghoul of the sea. A beautiful, hand drawn animation, directed by Edith Pieperhoff, based on a short story by Clarissa Pinkola Estes ↓
Skeleton Woman […]
¤ Robin Skynner & John Cleese: LIFE and how to survive it [1993]
The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing – [excerpts]
Robin: …I like the idea of a Greek psychologist called Charis Katakis. She’s taken a word we’re familiar with –‘myth’– and given it a wider meaning. […]
Born in Ballinasloe in County Galway, Ireland, Tomás Ó Cárthaigh grew up in Offaly and currently lives and works in Tullamore in the north of Co. Offaly. Writing for Tomás is a passion, he was the winner of the Readings from the Pallet festival in Banagher in 2010, and also featured at the […]
«EARLY ON A rainy Sunday afternoon in November a man was hurrying down Third Avenue, past closed and barred florist shops and newsstands, his hands stuffed into his pockets and his head bent against the wind…»
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, David Leavitt‘s […]
¤ The Grasping Hand The modern democratic state pillages its productive citizens [Winter 2010]
To assess the unprecedented scale that the modern democratic state has attained in Europe, it is useful to recall the historical kinship between two movements that emerged at its birth: classical liberalism and anarchism. Both were motivated by the […]
¤ Alexandra Horowitz: ‘Inside of a dog’ ⇓
In Inside of a Dog (What Dogs See, Smell and Know), Alexandra Horowitz evokes the dog’s perspective by interweaving the science of dog cognition and perception with personal reflections on her own dog’s behavior. Ranging from what it might be like to […]
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