Fantasy #6
I lie in bed; the morning lie in bed, my clock sits to the left with face away, ticking. I know it will go off soon. But I cannot tell when. It would be better if I would simply get up now, of my own...
View ArticleFantastical Cetology 101
I was just re-reading moby dick last week, and I remembered an idea I had for a post the last time I read it. The basic idea was this: whales can communicate with other whales half way around the...
View ArticleThe Sleeping Princess
There once were a King and Queen who were unable to conceive a child. One day, the Queen, looking out from her balcony, said “Oh, I would give anything to be with child”. No sooner had she spoken but a...
View ArticleThe moste subtle tormentation of the pour.
I was introduced to the following technique by the archcricket of Wales at a charity luncheon several years back – it can cause terrible internal consternation in the mind of the poor victim and will...
View ArticleCancer Warning
I was reading a very provocative article recently in the British Medical Journal which documented a large-scale study of cancer-clusters they occur in northern England and Scotland. There are sometimes...
View ArticleA modern-day Funes
I have been reading through back-issues of the journal “Neurology in Clinical Practice in Iowa” over the past few evenings, and have come across one or two very fascinating case studies. I’ll mention...
View ArticleThe sight of a girl
I came across something moderately fascinating yesterday in the journal of Neurology in Clinical Practice in Iowa (the may 1983 issue), which touches on many issues that interest me; allow me relate it...
View ArticleThe fabulous revolution
Hotels used to have smoked glass to keep the candelabra-lit activities inside private, and also to tantalise the workers on the outside with silhouettes of grandeur. When the revolution came, the...
View ArticleThe Registration
Our Nation used to have the motto Strength in numbers. Freedom in numbers. We were a country enamoured with number and quantity. They very idea of a number represented to us a unity, a collection, the...
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