Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay, Her tender herd lay by her: She slept, in murmuring gruntlings they, Complaining of the scorching day, Her slumbers thus inspire. She dreamt, while she with careful pains, Her snowy arms employed, In ivory pails to fill out grains, One of her love-convicted swains, Thus hastening to her cried:…
Month: October 2025
Why is truth hiding?
When I wrote A Brief History of Lies as an essay over a decade ago I never had any reason to suppose lying in the human community would get worse. Natural growth of lying as more people joined the race I got, but the level of lies within the population has grown exponentially with the…
Libraries
I just took possession of some 300 art books from a friend. They were rotting in a shed (but slowly) and one or two had begun to get mold on their covers. These books span art history and catalogues from the 1970s – 2000. They include paperback which, though I never took an art history…
In a world
filled with fake news and videos that are made in front of computers that can fool you online, with made-up statistics and even invented official organisations or organisations invented for the purpose of misleading, where does one go to find out facts? Wikipedia is trying to promote knowledge and fails time-and-time again. Many papers are…
London
After a week sitting in a lovely house being the adult with a fourteen year old boy I am home. My friend’s son is a funny young man and if he keeps going with his kindness and philosophy he will make a very wise adult … wiser than I was. I guess he will have…
An Old Adage
Peace has to be fought for. My moral philosophy tutor at college said he felt more confident in a leader who said they were fighting a war in order to win the peace, than one who says they are fighting a war to win. In a way bot are saying the same thing but the…
Publish on Demand
POD is looked on as the lower end of publishing – no great novel will ever come from it it is for pulp market paperbacks and the convenience and money saving strategy of the large publishing houses, nothing more. I have a friend who published with Amazon and he told me his new novel retails…
Unseen
Here, unseen My words fade into air, Falling with autumn leaves – Birds peck at their edges – People walk over my words Careless of what could be Under their feet – Nobody, not even I, Speak the fallen words Aloud, strangely the woods Echo their meaning Almost by love – My words fall into…
The Race to Understand
I always wondered how people can see the same facts and draw different conclusions. Then i realised how much conditioning goes on in schools around the world and what flags can be used for. Then I saw how enmity is transferred unencumbered from generation to generation. Then I saw how class division is fostered and…
Is A Work of Art
a work of art because the maker always intended it to be? We think of Michelangelo’s cartoons as works of art – he did not. Is anything human beings make a wok of art? they want you to believe ready-mades and mass manufacture and found objects are all works of art. Is a work of…