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Adam’s Notebook

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Gaum, Ghastly

I am now older than Mervyn Peake was when he died, something which brings home to me just how truncated his life was. He was in his 20s…

Sep 27, 2023 · 11 min read · 152 claps #mervyn-peake #gormenghast

LIF

Asked by her publisher in the late 1960s to write a book for older children Le Guin revisited a couple of short stories she had previously…

Feb 05, 2023 · 13 min read · 108 claps #ursula-le-guin #wizard-of-earthsea

SOC

Following on from yesterday [‘Homer in Old English’] and by the same logic — that is, translating selections from different stages of…

Oct 19, 2023 · 4 min read · 35 claps #hesiod #middle-english

MDA SCI

I’m writing a science fiction story at the moment that involves, amongst other things, an interaction between baryonic matter — that’s the…

Jan 09, 2022 · 2 min read · 7 claps #baryon

LIF

In Book 20 of the Iliad, Aeneas faces Achilles on the battlefield. Before combat is joined, Aeneas boasts about his lineage, which he…

Apr 04, 2023 · 7 min read · 6 claps #iliad #horses #aenea

LIF

“For such a massive animal, they also move surprisingly fast — some reaching speeds of up to 30 km/hr (18.6 mph). (For reference, the…

Nov 18, 2023 · 1 min read · 5 claps #robert-burn #hippopotamus

The car passes. Dust devils rise in its wake like heads of wheat.

Jun 16, 2022 · 0 min read · 3 claps #poem #summer-lawn

This is a smile.

Apr 04, 2021 · 2 min read · 0 claps #smile #frown