The Machine Stops
“And even the lecturers acquiesced when they found that a lecture on the sea was none the less...
Tag: history
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other...
Arabian Sands
From Abyssinia I was sent to Syria, where I served in Jabal al Druze and later worked for a year...
The Pandemic is a Portal
Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing...
The Hour Of The Star
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was...
Amaryllis Night and Day
Amaryllis seemed preoccupied. ‘See you in my dreams,’ I said. That got a smile, then...
Sapiens
We can connect a limited number of sounds and signs to produce an infinite number of sentences,...
The Surgeon Of Crowthorne
Lambeth belonged administratively, at least until 1888, to the county of Surrey – meaning that the relatively strict laws that applied to the capital’s citizens did not apply to anyone who ventured, via one of the new bridges like Waterloo, Blackfriars, Westminster or Hungerford, into the wen of Lambeth. The village thus became fast known as a site of revelry and abandon, a place where public houses and brothels and lewd theatres abounded, and where a man could find entertainment of all kinds – and disease of all varieties – for no more than a handful of pennies.
Down Under: In A Sunburned Country
…Cook was now free to go off and fulfill the second part of his assignment—to explore the...
On Beauty
The bus approached. Levi did not notice it. At the last minute he stretched out his hand. The bus...
