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By Hole Ousia Posted on Oct 24, 2019

apples on the sill of the window

A quote from ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W G Sebald. This is for Mrs Picken.

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1970s, a modern ruin, abandoned, Alexander McCall Smith, apple, Balhaddie, Bilbliotheca Abscondita, Bonaly, Bootmaker, Brideshead Revisited, Carnock House, circular yew, Colinton, Colinton Magazine, concentration camps, connection, curves, Dementia, Dunwich, Eccles Church Tower, Edinburgh Evening News, Evelyn Waugh, exploration, gate, gates, gateway, gateways, Grantown on Spey, Hedge, hedging, herring, Hole Ousia, humanity, Incorrigibly plural, Jackie Picken, James Joyce, John Picken, kindness, landscape, light, Little Spartan, Loss, Max Sebald, Maze, memories, memory, Mrs Picken, Musaem Clausum, Nature, paperboy, Peter J Gordon, Picken, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, rebel antiquary, Redford drive, ruin, ruins, Scull, shoe shop, shoeshop, silver darlings, Social maverick, Somerleyton, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, These are the hands, Thomas Browne, W G Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald, writer, WWII, Wyndeham Le strange, Yew, Yew tree, Yew trees, Yews

By Hole Ousia Posted on Oct 24, 2019

Quite beyond my reach

Quotes about gates (one of my fascinations) from ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W G Sebald

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1970s, a modern ruin, abandoned, Alexander McCall Smith, Balhaddie, Bilbliotheca Abscondita, Brideshead Revisited, Carnock House, circular yew, concentration camps, connection, curves, Dunwich, Eccles Church Tower, Evelyn Waugh, exploration, gate, gates, gateway, gateways, Grantown on Spey, Hedge, hedging, herring, Hole Ousia, humanity, Incorrigibly plural, James Joyce, landscape, light, Little Spartan, Loss, Max Sebald, Maze, memory, Musaem Clausum, Nature, Peter J Gordon, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, Scull, silver darlings, Social maverick, Somerleyton, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, These are the hands, Thomas Browne, W G Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald, writer, WWII, Wyndeham Le strange, Yew, Yew tree, Yew trees, Yews

By Hole Ousia Posted on Oct 24, 2019

The circular Yew hedge

The circular Yew hedge in ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W G Sebald

Categories: Architecture, Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: a modern ruin, abandoned, Alexander McCall Smith, Bilbliotheca Abscondita, Brideshead Revisited, circular yew, concentration camps, connection, curves, Dunwich, Eccles Church Tower, Evelyn Waugh, exploration, Hedge, hedging, herring, Hole Ousia, humanity, Incorrigibly plural, James Joyce, landscape, light, Little Spartan, Loss, Max Sebald, Maze, memory, Musaem Clausum, Nature, Peter J Gordon, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, Scull, silver darlings, Social maverick, Somerleyton, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, These are the hands, Thomas Browne, W G Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald, writer, WWII, Wyndeham Le strange, Yew, Yew tree, Yew trees, Yews

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