The Garden of Forking Paths
To Victoria Ocampo In his A History of the World War (page 212), Captain Liddell Hart reports that...
Tag: writing
Lanny
At that time I was into finding and cleaning the skeletons of dead things. Mostly birds. I would...
Landmarks
I am wary of the dangers of fetishizing dialect and archaism – all that mollocking and sukebinding...
The Rings Of Saturn
Words and sentences seem covered in mildew.
The Furious Passage of James Baldwin
He was about ten, and puny for his age, when two Harlem patrolmen stopped him in an empty lot....
Friends Within The Darkness
I can remember starving in a
small room in a strange city
shades pulled down, listening to
classical music
A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush
On the way back from ‘luncheon’, while Hyde-Clarke bought some Scotch ribs in a fashionable butcher’s shop, I went into the Post Office in Mount Street and sent a cable to Hugh Carless, a friend of mine at the British Embassy, Rio de Janeiro.
Cool Memories
It is true that we no longer have a culture of leisure, in which thought and writing were violent...
