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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 23, 2026February 23, 2026

G A Z I L L I O N

Dictionary definition of Gazillion: A very large (but indefinite) number or quantity (of something): chiefly in plural. The first mention of this colloquial in British newspapers seems to have been … Continue reading G A Z I L L I O N

Categories: Philosophy, Poems, Progress hardly broke its strideTags: language, nonsense, number, one-word poems, one-word titles, reality, slang, USA, words
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 8, 2019December 2, 2024

‘Frolic and Detour’

This book of poems, the 13th by Paul Muldoon, is on my wish list, having read a review in Scotland on Sunday: This passage took my mind to two recent … Continue reading ‘Frolic and Detour’

Categories: Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Poems, Two culturesTags: creativity, Flight of ideas, nonsense, Omphalos films, poetry
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 14, 2017December 5, 2024

Was there anything so real as words?

This, my latest film, is called Sapir-Whorf. Sapir Whorf: To play this short film please click here or on the image above This film is based upon my time in … Continue reading Was there anything so real as words?

Categories: Omphalos films, Two culturesTags: Aberdeen, Dr Flaxman, Janice Galloway, John Berger, Marischal College, nonsense, Omphalos films, Scheff
By Hole Ousia Posted on February 23, 2017December 6, 2024

Here is where we meet

On the 9th March 2017, I visited Glendevon castle with my friend Ian: ‘Giving a work a name is the start of letting it go’. A short film on Glendevon … Continue reading Here is where we meet

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, ScotlandTags: abandoned, Hale Bopp, Ian Collins, John Berger, nonsense, Omphalos films, Perthshire, ruins
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 5, 2017December 6, 2024

Sense and feel

It is both terrible (and not so terrible) How much I forget I sense more than I forget. And feel more than I sense.

Categories: PoemsTags: nonsense, Peter's poems
Peter Scott-Gordon: gardener, artist, retired doctor: peter@holeousia.com
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