It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, thought it seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train included. Now it’s so small it fits in my head. You must imagine a hot and humid place, bathed in sunshine and bright colours. The riot of flowers is incessant.
And then:
- The Jam I’m sure this is a fairly controversial pick of a band, but I’m specifically thinking of their demos and b-sides...
- The History of Mr Polly The essential thing of those fifteen long years of shopkeeping is Mr Polly, well athwart the counter of his rather...
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius I am not a proponent of the curtains being open. Some people know. Of course they know. People know. Everyone...
- JPod The next day the big drama was that John cast a spell on Evil Mark after Evil Mark ate a...
- The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor “To the handsome and the privileged,” she declared, as though addressing the night itself, “who can scarcely imagine being otherwise,...
- South of the Border, West of the Sun “Day after day you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky, then sink in the west,...
