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Tag: he cannot unlearn the feeling

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 7, 2025September 7, 2025

Rough proof

It was strange being dead. I died three times [perhaps more] BEN CRUACAN [I was not ‘Rough Proof’] ALDBAR GLEN [Tainted Love] RUICHLACHRIE [‘a little bit of activity’] As an … Continue reading Rough proof

Categories: Poems, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: Bonaly, Catriona, he cannot unlearn the feeling, mortality, Mortar and pestle, Peter John Gordon, Peter's poems, suicidality, suicide
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 18, 2025July 18, 2025

Tipperlinn House

Categories: Family history, History of medicine, Medical humanities, PsychiatryTags: Bonaly, Catriona, Edinburgh, he cannot unlearn the feeling, I don't want this isolation, Peter John Gordon, psychiatry, This is not yesterday
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 2, 2024

Hints of robustness survived

Hints of robustness survived: To play this short film please click here or on the image above Music credit: a cover of ‘Smalltown boy’ by the Eves  

Categories: Family history, Omphalos filmsTags: Bonaly, he cannot unlearn the feeling, Omphalos films, Peter John Gordon, sensitivity
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 9, 2022November 23, 2024

unlearning things

A passage from this novel by Hanya Yanagihara:

Categories: Medical humanities, Two culturesTags: Bonaly, Hanya Yanagihara, he cannot unlearn the feeling, Memoirs, Peter Gordon, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 30, 2021November 25, 2024

Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender

I recently read Father and Son by the writer and poet  Edmund Gosse. This ‘memoir’ was written in 1907 and subtitled ‘a study of two temperaments.’ I was reminded of … Continue reading Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender

Categories: Omphalos films, Two culturesTags: Bonaly, he cannot unlearn the feeling, Memoirs, reading, Robert Louis Stevenson
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 20, 2019December 2, 2024

Hints of robustness survived

Hints of robustness survived: To play this short film please click here or on the image above Music credit: a cover of ‘Smalltown boy’ by the Eves  

Categories: Family history, Omphalos filmsTags: Bonaly, he cannot unlearn the feeling, Omphalos films, Peter John Gordon, sensitivity
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 15, 2018December 5, 2024

Weather Bomb

Sunday, 14th January 1968 and a storm that had no name. I do not remember this storm as I was not even a month old, but I do recall my … Continue reading Weather Bomb

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, This is Not yesterdayTags: Bonaly, Catriona, Drumdruils, he cannot unlearn the feeling, letters, Omphalos films
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 3, 2017December 6, 2024

If there were less of me

               

Categories: Family history, Medical humanities, Two culturesTags: Bonaly, Catriona, he cannot unlearn the feeling, reading

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