Funnily enough I don’t think I have ever been out of the country on Walpurgis Night
“Funnily enough I don’t think I have ever been out of the country on Walpurgis Night. Surely this is something I must do, to spend Walpurgis Night on the Brocken … Continue reading
Walpurgis Night
Faust, Parts 1 and 2 By Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSummary and Analysis Part 1: Walpurgis Night It has been nearly a year since Valentine’s death and Faust has again abandoned … Continue reading
Even when I started going to Sunset Strip in Soho (next door to where Karl Marx used to live)
“Even when I started going to Sunset Strip in Soho (next door to where Karl Marx used to live), and the Carnival Theatre, there used to be an element of burlesque … Continue reading
WHEN FLAPPERS RULED THE EARTH
WHEN FLAPPERS RULED THE EARTH — A lovely article by Judith Mackrell in the Guardian about the shocking and arousing flapper antecedents of today’s all too mundane strippers: ” In 1908, … Continue reading
“Boswell was the first biographer to set all this upon a system”
“Boswell was the first biographer to set all this upon a system. Instead of writing a book of mere scattered anecdote, ill-sourced, he drew on his journal and many other … Continue reading
How annoying are those people who stand around a bus stop
How annoying are those people who stand around a bus stop, with their feet almost on the edge of the kerb, as the bus approaches, so the bus pulls up … Continue reading
“On the same day as he recorded these noble thoughts Boswell also wrote up a recent conversation”
“On the same day as he recorded these noble thoughts, Boswell also wrote up a recent conversation with Johnson in which the great man had advised him to keep a … Continue reading
I cannot escape the thought that my sub-conscious deliberately created this infection
“I cannot escape the thought that my sub-conscious deliberately created this infection, in order to force me to delay my trip to Europe yet again, because deep down I really … Continue reading
“The 22-year-old was horrified and impressed by the 53-year-old. ‘Mr Johnson is a man of a most dreadful appearance'”
“”The 22-year-old was horrified and impressed by the 53-year-old. “Mr Johnson is a man of a most dreadful appearance. He is a very big man, is troubled with sore eyes, … Continue reading
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