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Month: March 2019

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 29, 2019December 3, 2024

success

long ago [without understanding] I felt like Flaubert. I am grey now but Flaubert, dead-before-I-was born has not left me.

Categories: PoemsTags: Peter's poems
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 29, 2019December 3, 2024

Come down from there

Come down from there [an edit from ‘The Rebel Antiquary‘]: To play this short film please click here or on the image above

Categories: big braw cosmos, Omphalos filmsTags: comet seekers, Omphalos films
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 29, 2019December 3, 2024

a bit of background

Muriel Spark.

Categories: Philosophy, ScotlandTags: Muriel Spark
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 29, 2019December 3, 2024

Muriel Spark’s compass

Words: ‘A Far Cry From Kensington’ by Muriel Spark

Categories: Progress hardly broke its strideTags: commercialisation, Muriel Spark
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 29, 2019December 3, 2024

For ruin was certainly ahead

Photograph: Barbreck Mausoleum from the Folly Words:  from  ‘A Far Cry From Kensington’ by Muriel Spark  

Categories: Time passesTags: Barbreck, mausoleum, Muriel Spark, road North, ruins
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 29, 2019December 3, 2024

And since I wondered

Words: from ‘A Far Cry From Kensington’ by Muriel Spark Painting:  ‘It harrows me with fear and wonder‘ by Marc Nelson

Categories: Two culturesTags: ideas, Muriel Spark, wander
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 29, 2019December 3, 2024

It was not all a materialistic process

Words: [edit] of a page from ‘A Far Cry from Kensington’ by Muriel Spark Image: Peter at St John’s Hospital, NHS West Lothian

Categories: Family history, NHS Scotland, Two culturesTags: Dr Peter Gordon, Muriel Spark, NHS West Lothian, St John's Hospital
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 29, 2019December 3, 2024

I could listen to Milly for hours

Painting: ‘Milly Finch’ by James McNeill Whistler Words: by Muriel Spark from ‘A Far Cry from Kensington’  

Categories: Two culturesTags: Muriel Spark

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