Why is alcohol policy difficult?
About 10 years ago I took a job running an alcohol and drug policy unit in…
A new dark age
A reblogged post from early 2016. Dark pessimism or seed of hope?
Going sane writing
Going sane writing Source: Going sane writing
Six asides about culture (and Havel, reblogged)
“Who among us can know what may seem today to be marginal graphomania might not one…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat (the series reblogged)
I thought I would reblog this post which commenced my 14 post series – 13 ways…
“I am no writer, I am somebody who writes” – Thomas Bernhard on Thomas Bernhard
https://sebald.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/i-am-no-writer/ I am reblogging this post on the intriguing Bernhard from this excellent blog focussed on…
The hope of none
In reading Austerlitz last night, I stumbled on the passage in which the relayed memories of…
Error is in control
The mind errs. My mind errs. The mind slips from its own grasp. The mind believes…
Sponges, metamorphoses and psyche
After a morning during which I searched my ravaged memory for the concealed door to my…
Sebald’s sentences
I have spent the afternoon, as if in retreat from a world that does not welcome…