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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 15, 2021July 15, 2021

The Laundry Problem

This film is about Patriothall Laundry in Eyre Terrace, Edinburgh. Built in 1904 it was recently demolished. Please note: some of the images used are of Craigmillar Laundry and the … Continue reading The Laundry Problem

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1904, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Antiquary, Baudolino, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Castlebank Laundry, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Craigmillar Laundry, David Peters, Deborah Levy, Do not say we have nothing, Edinburgh, Eyre Terrace, Gabriel García Márquez, garden, gardener, George Saunders, Girdwood, Glasgow, Half of a yellow sun, Hole Ousia, Iron gate sensitivity, IS WASHDAY WORTHWHILE?, John Lanchester, King George IV Park, lion rampant, Lost Edinburgh: The Royal Patent Gymnasium, Modern Athenians, Muriel Spark, Nooks and Crannies, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Pale Fire, Patrick Neil, Patriothall, Patriothall Laundry, patriotic, Penelope Fitzgerald, rebel antiquary, Rose, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Patent Gymnasium, Scotland Street, Scotland Street Station, Scotland Street tunnel, Silvermills, Social maverick, Spurtle, steam laundry, Stockbridge, The Antiquary, The cost of living, the gate of Angels, the laundry problem, The Rebel Antiquary, The Royal Patent Gymnasium, the scandal of the century, The wall, thistle, Umberto Eco, Vladimir Nabokov

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 6, 2019December 6, 2019

‘The Wall’

I have just read ‘The Wall’ – a novel by John Lanchester. As a warning of a dystopian future it is most unsettling.

Categories: Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1984, Climate change, climate emergency, concrete, Concrete poetry, concretewaterwindsky, dystopian, Hole Ousia, John Lanchester, Nineteen eighty-four, Peter Gordon, The wall

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