Poem: the way out machine
The way out machine I enclose my breath in a maskIn the distance we keep for…
Thucydides’ Tower
Thucydides, one of the rival brothers who founded the Western tradition of history, who lived in…
Poem: The mask
The mask I connect through the transparent maskTriggering autostart with the first breath The first gasp…
Reflections on 2019: walking through the desert
It has been a barren year. My writing projects have not developed as I would like….
Reflections on 2019: notes on my reading
The year’s reading has been among my least studious. The troubles of the year have robbed…
Reflections on 2019: walking through the circles of hell
It has been a difficult and personally challenging year. Much of the year has been consumed…
Where is virtue in dark times?
“It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and…
Free speech for public servants and Osip Mandelstam
During the week the High Court of Australia passed judgement on a case in which a…
My descriptions of the Northern Peoples – travel in Stockholm and Uppsala
I am returning today to my notes on my travels, and piecing together the literary and…
11 years with WordPress – from the archive: Good Government Starts Today
Earlier this week I got a message from WordPress that I had passed my 11th anniversary…