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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 23, 2020March 5, 2023

‘There’s this shadow beside him in the painting’

Apart from the closinq quote – which is from Peter Pan – the passages below are all from MAYFLIES by Andrew O’Hagan:

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Categories: Architecture, Family history, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 'What is it Peter?', 1990, a dear and affectionate friend of the village, Aberdeen Medical School, ageing, Andrew O'Hagan, Antiquary, As a wee boy I was taken by my Granny to a theatre in Edinburgh to see a production of 'Peter Pan'. Since then I have been fascinated with shadows, beyond the chieftans and captains of thought, changeless world, Clannad, Class of 1990, death, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, EPHEMERON, Friends of Liberty, friendship, Hole Ousia, I used to pretend this garden was Neverland, Imaginary friend, It isn't that kind of pain, J M Barrie, Lady Marian, Loss, magical friend, Mayflies, MAYFLIES by Andrew O'Hagan, Mayfly, Nicholson portrait, Omphalos, Omphalos films, pain, Peter Gordon, Peter Pan, Portrait, Portrait Gallery, rebel antiquary, Scottish Proust, shadow, Simon Kemp, Social maverick, Swammerdam, Tørt, The Antiquary, the colours of shadows, the lost brother, The Rebel Antiquary, the topographer of the shadow-lands in their intractable remoteness, There's this shadow beside him in the painting, two shadows in conversation, unbefriended adventurer, unflinching friendship, Wendy

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