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Phorgotography, 3
vii this is enough(This is another instance of Facebook popping up a few photos at random, me finding myself responding more thoughtfully to them than Ι’d expected – ie being a bit floored by the coincidence – only not to … Continue reading
Phorgotography, 1
Our relationship with the photograph has changed so much over the last twenty years that the few black and white or kodachrome or instamatic images of older folks’ childhoods (and of their progenitors’ entire lives) have taken on the austerity … Continue reading
Posted in xenochronicity
Tagged Anne Stevenson, Broughty Ferry, Constantinople, Crete, Cutlery, Durham, Lockdown, North Shields, Nostalgia, Odysseus, Paskha, Photography, Psarasoupa, Slomadicity, Spolia, St Mark’s, The Black Death, The Fourth Crusade, The Lady of the Lake, The Lit & Phil, Venice
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Mourning and Monsters, 1
(As Christmas and the year’s end approaches, you begin to adopt Janus’s regard: looking forward to what is shared and anticipated, while reflecting back on what is lost or appears to be completed. I’ve been considering the links between the … Continue reading
Posted in current emanations, Makaronics, xenochronicity
Tagged Andy Croft, Broughty Ferry, Byron, Crete, Don Juan, Dundee, Fudan University, N.S. Thompson, Shanghai
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Waukendremes, 1
An interesting blog post from Richard Gwyn about the not uncommon experience of falling asleep while reading reminds me I’ve been exploring a few angles of this phenomenon over the years. That odd-to-and-fro relationship of reader to writer, and of … Continue reading
Psychogeoferric Footnotes
(This is the last of the plunder from Tumblr: displacement activity for not finishing off the Mexico City post, which I have now no excuse not to return to apart from the full time job. And my accounts. I’m adding … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Jackson, Beijing, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Crete, Dome on the Rock, Donegal, Dundee, Hagia Sophia, James Joyce, Kilometre Zero, Lewis Carroll, Madrid, Magdalen Green, Mexico City, Newcastle, Portmanteau Word, The Discovery, The Forbidden City, The Wailing Wall, Whaleback City
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PsychoGeoFerry 4
(This fourth part of the 2013 Tumblr posts has a semi-conclusive air to it, as I didn’t realise what was to come – the makarship, the death – and so could imagine things were heading to some sort of conclusion. … Continue reading
PsychoGeoFerry 2
(This second note from 2013 is almost literally about finding my feet: I was doing a lot of walking, revisiting and revision ing and revising my perception of the Ferry and Dundee. The ‘Ginsberg glimpse’ from the flat window presaged, … Continue reading
Carry On, Leonora: 3
(Here the piece returns to old obsessions about what story is, and what it is for. It’s no coincidence that at a certain point during this summer, sitting peering out at the Libyan Sea in the tiny Cretan port of … Continue reading
Heroic/Homiletic (you choose) Addendum
(Following on from the previous post, I’d expanded slightly on the enigmatic reference at the end to my own writing, but realised in that context it was digressive. Here, however, it’s part of the estranged brew of published, unpublished, retro- … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholicism, Crete, Dundee, Emmanuel Tzanes, Giorgios Chortatzis, Henry the Eighth, Heraklion, John Knox, Lutheranism, Mandelshtam, Montaigne, Robert Wedderburn, Shostakovich, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Ottoman Empire, The Rough Wooing, Venice, Vitzentos Kornaros
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