a dancing star!

Those spans of Christian-time we call “weekends”, stretching from short, shrift Fridays to long lazy Sundays, seldom warrants thinking about; somehow or rather, you savour it, it savours you. Which leaves the remaining four days. Thursdays are lubricated by a reverse spillage from the anticipated Friday. Best described as en-lulled Thursdays. Wednesdays are threshold days, [...]

I’m not sure what steered me initially away, and brought me to what I hope to be a more permanent return to the site. Things change, I suppose.
I used to subscribe to the Times Literary Supplement; each new issue invariably arrived on a Tuesday, and it would be the focal point until, once religiously devoured, [...]

How elusive is time? I last clicked on the “Write Post” button of this blog more than six months ago, in early September.
Much has taken place since then, not least my impending marriage to Jenny (see here for her one and only post on this blog). Yes, I’m guilty (and it’s true): love has drawn [...]

It is curious how inertia weighs so heavily, how such a non-exerting phenomena, a mere nothingness, can extract precisely its opposite. Energia - motion and potential - gently seeps into and takes residence in our psyche during fallow periods. It is contrary, if I recall, to the lightness that Calvino and Kundera address.
Downtheinkwell [...]