Monday, January 31, 2022

On Not Having Read Ulysses

 On Not Having Read Ulysses

 

 

Or perhaps my title should be “On Not Having Finished Ulysses”, or “On Only Having Dipped into Ulysses”. For on my shelves is a dog-eared and yellowing Penguin paperback edition, which has reproachfully followed me around over the years. It dates from the mid 1970s (price £1.50).

Sunday, January 16, 2022

5K to Couch

 “5K to Couch”- Sporting Rise and Decline


 

We all live, some of the time, an internal life in which we are timeless entities – the same person, young, middle, and old. This is the person often active in our dreams.