Once upon a time, I would write to conjure up positivity, to attempt to push the boundaries of human feeling. But when darker arts have a lasting hold, this is what tests relationships with writing and with the self to their extreme. Continue reading »
Drop a copywriter into the world of SEO and hack journalism and watch him fight to stay afloat. Continue reading »
Last summer, I enjoyed the rare fortune of a primary school reunion, fifteen years after leaving. It is with sorrow and tragedy that this memory is graced here, as we come to terms with the tragic passing of one of our old classmates. Continue reading »
This past fortnight, mixing with the best early-modernists and Marvellians in the world, exciting and exhilirating as it has been, has shown an alarming sense of insecurity. Continue reading »
Tomorrow morning (28th) marks the ten year anniversary of a nasty incident that shaped much of what I have become in this decade. Aside from the day permeating the calendar, the causes no longer reach me with their unexplained darkness. For the effects, I’m glad to have had the opportunity to address the case personally. Continue reading »
Thank you very much for visiting and supporting this space. It is a little quiet of late because our family is expecting a new arrival soon, and I am baring the brunt of the physical upheaval. It is hard to judge whether this red sky was at night or in the morning, but I will … Continue reading »
The identity of the seventeenth-century citizen, and much of their livelihoods in turn, revolved around ideology: moral instruction and religious practice. Today, far-removed, we revolve around different factors. Whether financial, material, status, pride, or perhaps family, children, and day-to-day survival, much of this boils down to occupation. What is evidently comparable, though, is the scale of the effect on livelihood. Continue reading »
Tie-break, 6-5, match point, Alex Bogdanovic. World no. 5 Andy Roddick challenges the call on Hawk-Eye, successfully, wins the set point in his favour, and goes on to scrape a narrow victory, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4. The smallest of margins can have the most decisive impact. One might suspect that Bogdanovic’s mixed career could have … Continue reading »
[Amended from Original] Matters are slowly taking shape. Rekindling earlier ideas in recent work has given birth to thought concerning tensions between the public and the private, the ethics of privacy and of conscience. To look at Marvell and Privacy seems perfect. There is plenty in the whole idea of Privacy. I wonder if there … Continue reading »
