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Monthly Archives August 2008

Epical

I found this splendiferous sentence in the somewhat obscure Room Temperature, by Nicholson Baker. Indeed, it is “epical”:
Isaac Casaubon, for instance, one of the most compulsive polyhistors of all time, bent with study, according to Scaliger, had spared time to raise, or at least father, a child - the same Causabon who in 1614, even […]

Posted 19 August 2008 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Sun and Stars

I dreamt the other night that I entered an expensive nightclub, which led downstairs from street-level. When I got downstairs there were not many people around, but there was a door leading outside. I went out and found there a lake, with warm water that I waded into.
Above the lake, the sky was a deep, […]

Posted 17 August 2008 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

BLOOD OF JESUS

I went to Brixton Market last Saturday, and ate tasty Colombian food with my friend Toby. I also bought this lovely sticker, from a sort of Carribean-style Christianity dealer.

Posted 09 August 2008 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (1) °

Little table

I should try not to forget about how when we lived in that one room in Highbury Estate, we used to eat dinner sitting on the floor, with that little wooden table between us.
Unless I am much mistaken, after work it was usually me sitting at the desk, and Oriana sitting on the bed. Then […]

Posted 06 August 2008 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Edible

The most important thing Charles Darwin taught us is that we are all mutants.

Posted 05 August 2008 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

FALSE HEAD

False Head, And Other Parts
Anthony Riddelll
Wilbur Z. Megiddo, himself without arms, is on an obsessive search for a limbless mammal. He teams up with Ichthyopod, Troublee Bingbang and Miranda Praecox on their journey to Lobethal, as all clues point to the mysterious mammals being found in this sleepy Adelaide Hills town.
But none of them realise […]

Posted 01 August 2008 † John Mansfield § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °