Monday 31 August 2015

Ne'er the twain shall meet


Till Earth and Sky stand presently at the great Judgment Seat

Sunday 30 August 2015

The knowledge of my own fallibility


Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes.

Saturday 29 August 2015

Friday 28 August 2015

Between Rodmell and Telscombe.


Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Leonard Woolf

Thursday 27 August 2015

We walked across the Downs to Telscombe


Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Wednesday 26 August 2015

Poor old Prufrock


Time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions

Tuesday 25 August 2015

Bright with sinuous rills


The shadow of the dome of pleasure floated midway on the waves where the mingled measure from the fountain and the caves was heard. A miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

Saturday 22 August 2015

Smooth, substantial and insinuating on the palate


There are many good whiskies gaining in prominence, on merit and structure, but whether they can compete with the single malts of Moraisliagh and Invermagriturn is a matter of violent disagreement.

Friday 21 August 2015

Oh dear!


'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell...

Wednesday 19 August 2015

Cognitating



Buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud.

Tuesday 18 August 2015

But what about you?



What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. (Keats)

Friday 14 August 2015

We are shaped by our thoughts


“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”  (LW)

Thursday 6 August 2015

In the city of Chanoch


No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Wednesday 5 August 2015