The Geecologist

Impatience of the Heart

Impatience of the Heart

Apr 23, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

Our host, a lawyer by profession and dogmatic by nature, opened the discussion. Employing the usual arguments, he put forward the usual airy nonsense: the present generation, he said, knew all about war and would not let itself be tricked so innocently into the next...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Feb 12, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

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...
Arabian Sands

Arabian Sands

Jun 26, 2021 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

From Abyssinia I was sent to Syria, where I served in Jabal al Druze and later worked for a year among the tribes. The deserts in which I had travelled had been blanks in time as well as space. They had no intelligible history, the nomads who inhabited them had no...
Eva Luna

Eva Luna

Feb 13, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

He knelt beside me. “What’s the matter?” “I’m afraid?” “Of what?” “Of the sounds, of this darkness, of evil spirits, of snakes and bugs, of the soldiers, of what we’re going to do Saturday-that we’ll all be killed …” “I’m afraid, too, but I wouldn’t miss this for...
Shooting An Elephant

Shooting An Elephant

May 2, 2020 | Essays, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

The Sporting Spirit Sport is an unfailing cause of ill-will. And how could it be otherwise? I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at...