The Geecologist

The Garden of Forking Paths

The Garden of Forking Paths

Apr 1, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

To Victoria Ocampo In his A History of the World War (page 212), Captain Liddell Hart reports that a planned offensive by thirteen British divisions, supported by fourteen hundred artillery pieces, against the German line at Serre-Montauban, scheduled for July 24,...
Piranesi

Piranesi

Jan 1, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

Laurence Arne-Sayles began with the idea that the Ancients had a different way of relating to the world, that they experienced it as something that interacted with them. When they observed the world, the world observed them back. If, for example, they travelled in a...
London Under

London Under

Jun 16, 2019 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

The subterranean world can be a place of fantasy, therefore, where the ordinary conditions of living are turned upside down. In the nineteenth century it was seen as a sanctuary for criminals, for smugglers, and for what were known as “night wanderers”; the cellars...
The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths

The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths

Jun 10, 2013 | Fiction | 0 comments

It is said by men worthy of belief (though Allah’s knowledge is greater) that in the first days there was a king of the isles of Babylonia who called together his architects and his priests and bade them build him a labyrinth so confused and so subtle that the...