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By Hole Ousia Posted on January 23, 2021

The OPEL is a car which fills a universal want!

Music credit: ‘Ghosteen’ by Nick Cave

Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A friendship in letters, a modern ruin, abandoned car, Antiquary, ASTROV, Burny Gully, Burnygully, Dr Flaxman, Dr John Flaxman, Everybody wants OPEL, Flaxman, friendship, Ghosteen, Ghosteen Speaks, Hale Bopp, Hole Ousia, Little Sparta, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphatyp, poem, poet, poetry, rebel antiquary, rusty, sebaldian, Social maverick, sparkian, The Antiquary, The OPEL is a car which fills a universal want!, The Rebel Antiquary, This is not yesterday, vintage car, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 23, 2021

Everybody wants OPEL!

Music credit: ‘Ghosteen’ by Nick Cave

Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A friendship in letters, a modern ruin, abandoned car, Antiquary, ASTROV, Burny Gully, Burnygully, Dr Flaxman, Dr John Flaxman, Everybody wants OPEL, Flaxman, friendship, Ghosteen, Ghosteen Speaks, Hale Bopp, Hole Ousia, Little Sparta, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphatyp, poem, poet, poetry, rebel antiquary, rusty, sebaldian, Social maverick, sparkian, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, This is not yesterday, vintage car, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 21, 2021January 22, 2021

We go from nowhere to nowhere, deliberately

This film/poem is for Dr John Flaxman. Music credit: ‘Ghosteen’ by Nick Cave

Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A friendship in letters, a modern ruin, abandoned car, Antiquary, ASTROV, Burny Gully, Burnygully, Dr Flaxman, Dr John Flaxman, Flaxman, friendship, Ghosteen, Ghosteen Speaks, Hale Bopp, Hole Ousia, Little Sparta, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphatyp, poem, poet, poetry, rebel antiquary, rusty, sebaldian, Social maverick, sparkian, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, This is not yesterday, vintage car, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 20, 2020December 20, 2020

Which novel has sold most?

This question was asked in last week’s Sunday TIMES: Of course there is no complete data to refer to but it is thought that Don Quixote tops the list. It … Continue reading Which novel has sold most?

Categories: Architecture, Family history, gardens, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 'bird-coop of the muses', 1967, a modern ruin, A study in literature and Medicine, abandoned, adventure, All the light we cannot see, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, By living we learn, By yellow lights tormented, chemical imbalance, Corsewall lighthouse, Don Quixote, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, ethics, Flight of ideas, Friends of Liberty, friendship, from End to End, gentle gardener, George Orwell, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Girnoc, Girnock, Hale Bopp, He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, he said another three thousand pieces of nonsense, Hippocrates, Hole Ousia, Howards End, hunchback, I cannot be equal I am humbled, I emerge now carrying all my yeaRS, I emerge now carrying all my years on my back, Ian Collins, In the Middle, It is by living we learn, It was a dangerous time to be human to fell or to think or to care, Kilmadock, learning to love like this, legislators, lines with unfinished endings, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, lost, Lost Strathdon, Madame Bovary, Marginalia, Mary Midgley, miguel de cervantes, Modern Ruin, Mossgrove, Nineteen eighty-four, Novel, Oceania, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Paxil, Peter J Gordon, philosophy, poetry, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, Scottish Poetry Library, Seroxat, Sian Fiona Williams, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, something that could astonish an entire university no matter how learned, Sparta, Speak Memory, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, Temple of the Muses, The Antiquary, The Chemical Imbalance, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rules of Science, the sky is not little, The stories of a small glen, The Times, the two cultures, they marveled at his madness, through wastelands and crossroads, to be humbled, translation, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, two girls sing, versos de cabo rato, Vivendo Discimus, well is there anyone who isn't tangent, what a lot of things you've strung together willy-nilly, Which novel has sold most?, with heart as gentle for distress, Woodend Hospital

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