Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Dark as soaring pine

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Witold Gombrowicz, a Polish born writer famous for his eccentric diaries, died 50 years ago today. His translator believes these diaries can...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Our Time of Day

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The British actor and political activist Corin Redgrave was born 80 years ago today. He kept diaries some of the time, and his second wife K...
Monday, July 15, 2019

On Magpies, on!

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‘Well - that worst part is over. Tomorrow, to pack, & then onto the Road & away. Details, like lorries & portable pianos & c...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Crossed a singular slough

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‘Started about sunrise, crossed a singular slough. Crossed a hard bottom covered knee deep with liquid black stagnant marsh mud, through whi...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

He distorted body parts

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‘ Wolverton was a master in caricaturing the human face and body.  He distorted body parts while multiplying others. Noses hang on necks, ea...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Understand it, and love me

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Havelock Ellis, an early British sexologist who wrote the first medical tract on homosexuality, died 80 years ago today. Given his own lack ...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Purpose into my life

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‘She put purpose into my life - the life of a spoiled bachelor congressman who was also a successful trial lawyer and a hero of the last war...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Two nebulae in Leo

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‘I ‘swept’ last night two hours, by three periods. It was a grand night - not a breath of air, not a fringe of a cloud, all clear, all beaut...