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Henry Marsh is a neurosurgeon. One of the 200 brain surgeons in Britain. I should use the past tense because he’s retired. He wrote a book about that too in 2023, And Finally . His fist book was the 2014 bestseller, Do No Harm . As well as being a master surgeon, he’s a competent DIY craftsman and a master wordsmith. This is the in-between book of his trilogy, I hadn’t read. Or at least thought I hadn’t. But when Marsh relates confessing to a...

Posted by airyfairy. As always, many thanks to everyone for the wonderful contributions this week. Story of the Week goes to 'Anyone At All' by Sean McNulty. This surreal, funny, bonkers but totally enchanting tale of a place where ink flows through the landscape and you can get 'a billion copies of your appalling opus, bound in fine leather and translated into 7,247 languages' will bring a rueful smile to any writer's lips: Anyone At All |...

Balance in a Multiverse Light needs darkness and vice versa, for without it everything would cease to exist. Like a long walk on a small planet between the near and far: forever in wonder, of things that Never fade away. An action equals a reaction, elsewhere. Yin and Yang. Karama with all her distant objects moving. Into twilight realms; what is called reality? This cosmic balance, between worlds, beyond our view, with such momentum that it...

Assimilate To take into conformity and incorporate, as one's own, absorb. Unconscious Alliance: waiting for nothing in return. We only have forever sworn to secrecy. That's hiding in plain sight; without form or void. In an artificial, lifelike bird flying in sequence. Watch as they disappear, separate only by time. Now and not yet holding their absence in the twilight. All is but a dream, and everything is so clearly real. Yet, it still...

As Time Continues The form of its manifestation. There will be light step by step. As time continues. Waiting to believe reaches back to the beginning as the end unfolds. precisely toward one destination in between two points. That has merged into a decisive decision, change reaction Steady and slow to come, easy to go. It shows in your flow. Almost there, just out of reach. Like salmon fish out of water resting in a tree, built nests surrounded...

CHANGING SEASON The legacy one chooses to leave behind, in the memories of faded time. Beneath the same sun from day to night, glimpses of the way beyond Vanishing, as though absence from the conscious world, memories of time spent on earth. Those dreams that were once far-off beacons of the future at a cost. Life distant flickers, until small moments flow; waiting for the magic hour to glow. Starlight in your eyes, filled with hope. When...

Reading is what I do. That’s the explanation I often give for my views. I sometimes add, I also write. But most readers aren’t interested in that. Lucy Mangan does both. She shares her home with her Bookworm husband and child and around 10 000 books. I love books too, but I’m not allowed to love them that much. ‘Books have not isolated me, they have connected me,’ Mangan tells us. Reading is an unnatural act. Think of it in analogous terms of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_(2023_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden Walden is a good name for a film. A good name for an American character. Walden (Emile Hirsch) is a court stenographer in a small southern town. The film was shot in Atlanta. Everyone knows each other. Everyone knows Walden. But he’s really not worth knowing. Penny dreadful. I was going to explain the plot. But if you’ve watched as many Scooby Doo cartoons as I...