Monthly Archives: January 2014

Writing on why the Novel of Ideas has fallen out of fashion, the critic and author Ted Gioia, using the example of Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, comments – Too great a refinement of ideas is invariably seen today … Continue reading →

Don’t – that’s a header, not professional IT advice.   But I’ve found a popular gift idea -okay, it’s not an idea, it’s an object that can be given as a present – that is in some ways the equivalent. … Continue reading →

Misology.   Sounds good, doesn’t it?  Defined as hatred of reason or reasoning. It suggests a memoir title: ‘Misology and Meanwood*. * Somewhere I used to work

Hello, Cabinet.   Big news:  we’re going to invade … I won’t bore you with the details – to be continued …

Quick – set up a parameter fence! What’s that? One where various aspects or features of situations are rapidly sorted and differentially admitted, of course. It’s obvious now you say it, sarge.

This note was discovered in a cave in southern Portugal: Dear Alex and Jez                                                      … Continue reading →

A follow-up study conducted by the same institutions discovered that, of the people who chose to have My Way played at their funeral because it expressed their radiantly individualistic and exceptionally endearing personality*, around 38% were ‘patently certifiably delusional’**, 35% … Continue reading →

Ray Davies did a mighty, soulful version of his rock anthem I’m not like everybody else on a recent Sky Arts programme. Spurred on by this I did some research and found out that, according to a (fictitious) study carried … Continue reading →