Nov 24, 2021 | Recipes, Truth |
The Bermondsey Beer Mile does keep evolving, so it’s worth checking with venues before rocking up, but as of the end of 2021, this map was accurate for taprooms, bars and breweries on the Bermondsey Beer Mile. These are the current featured breweries: Southwark...
Nov 20, 2021 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies |
The cliche is blamed for spoiling language and style. While this may be true, its destructive power is much more profound. The cliche blurs the difference between truth and untruth. If it were not for cliches, there wouldn’t be demagogues and public lies, and it...
Nov 6, 2021 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
We Happy Few – I suppose what I’m saying is if you imagined some force or agency in the world that was leading us towards doom and destruction, towards the dark, and then you imagined what kind of tools and technologies it would use, you’d come up...
Oct 30, 2021 | Lies, Truth & Lies
A PLACE So I have sailed the seas and come… to B…a small town fastened to a field in Indiana. Twice there have been twelve hundred people here to answer to the census. The town is outstandingly neat and shady, and always puts its best side to the highway. On one lawn...
Oct 23, 2021 | Travel, Truth, Truth & Lies |
I arrived back in Salala on 16 October 1946. I planned to cross the Empty Quarter from Mughshin to the Trucial Coast, and to return to Salala across the gravel steppes at the back of Oman, but I realized that if a hint of my plans reached the Wali he would forbid the...
Oct 16, 2021 | Lies, Short Stories, Truth & Lies |
I don’t know what started it. A bunch of men came by my Uncle Ed’s place and said there was going to be a party down at the Square, and my uncle hollered for me to come on and I ran with them through the dark and rain and there we were at the Square. When...