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  “The Infatuations ” by Javier Marias: What a great book, what a wonderful novel, what an extraordinary story!  The book starts with the de...

  Literature . For some a mild detergent to wash off the smut and dirt of everyday life and then bask and roll in the clean sheets of imagin...

  New (and older) novels I read since May,18th this year: “The Apartment” by Teddy Wayne: At first promising but then soon developing into a...

  - …, but his body was nowhere to be found. Instead of his corpse, they discovered a flower with a circle of white petals…. -   Metamorphos...

  “Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world?” - from “Autumn” by Ali Sm...

Relational Mirroring The world, so quantum physics tells us, is fundamentally made up of relations and events rather than permanent substanc...

Memory and The Suspension of Disbelief: I am what I am. And this is mainly due to what I remember. Remembrance, memory, is the main ingredie...

Variation Staying at home,  reflecting on the diversity of life,  on bacterial infection of the knees,  on ghostly ghosting images of metamo...

  My flowers are reflected In your mind As you are reflected in your glass. When you look at them, There is nothing in your mind Except the ...

  “Blue Hour” - musings on the colour blue: In this, our world, blue is not such a common color. In fact it is a rare one. Yes, the sky, sho...