Going Solo

Going Solo

‘I saw Major Griffiths and his wife running round the deck naked the other morning,’ I said. ‘You call that dotty?’ Miss Trefusis said with a snort. ‘That’s normal. ‘ ‘I didn’t think so.’ ‘You’ve...
Creation Lake

Creation Lake

As little Franck talks about why he thinks adults are afraid of children’s sexuality, someone in the background rides by on a loud motorcycle. Franck turns his head to look. He’s nine, but his body language is that of a teenager: he wants to know what’s going on...
A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

The factory is a large, barn-like structure that houses bolts of fabric, cutting tables, massive sewing machines, and furnaces that provide the steam for pressing. The total effect is rather surreal, especially when one sees Les Africains moving about attending to...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? Putting it...
West African String Theory

West African String Theory

The strings of West Africa reverberate around the world and if you’d like them reverberating around your home too, this playlist is for you. Every morning carefully trained string theory bots start their quantum work, listening backwards and forwards to tracks...