The Geecologist

Quantum weirdness isn’t weird

Quantum weirdness isn’t weird

Jun 12, 2021 | Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

If we accept objects don’t exist… There is a chair in front of me. A nice red wooden chair with four legs, a seat to sit on, a rest to support the sitter’s back. Does this chair exist by itself? Of course it does: it exists regardless of me. But wait: we...
The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch

Dec 7, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time. The writhing loathsomeness of the biological order. Old age, sickness,...
The Gay Science

The Gay Science

Aug 12, 2017 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

The Madman. Have you ever heard of the madman who on a bright morning lighted a lantern and ran to the market-place calling out unceasingly: “I seek God! I seek God!” – As there were many people standing about who did not believe in God, he caused a...
Desolation Angels

Desolation Angels

Dec 20, 2006 | Fiction | 0 comments

Because whether you murder or not, that’s the trouble, it makes no difference in the maddening void which doesn’t care what we do – all we know is that everything is alive otherwise it wouldn’t be here – the rest is speculation, mental...
The Outsider

The Outsider

Dec 20, 2006 | Fiction | 0 comments

The trigger gave. I felt the underside of the polished butt and it was there, in that sharp but deafening noise, that it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I realised that I’d destroyed the balance of the day and the perfect silence of this beach...