What ought we to forget?
I am so utterly torn by this question. For a start, I am forgetful, and I’m worried that this essentially means I am not learning anything. Or at least not enough. Forgetting is to ignore, right? It’s...
View ArticleWhat’s in the dark?
On the edge of the light is a flickering noise. Just outside of the crackling fire or the glowing circle is something else. You can hear it, and it grows into a million possibilities. It’s scary,...
View ArticleWhy decorate ourselves?
Someone said on twitter last night, ‘you don’t learn to spread your wings by gilding your cage’. And somebody else sang ‘my body is a cage’. So why do I seem so convinced that gilding my body sets me...
View ArticleAre we nearly there yet?
Always. But never actually there. We’ve got on foot in the future, and one in the past, which leaves us halfway between, and never fully the next. I don’t think I believe in destinations. Or stopping....
View ArticleWhere do bad poodles go when they die?
If I remember my D-list disney films. All dogs go to heaven. Of course, if I remember my hardline agnosticism, the concept of anything happening after the death of anything is slightly less proveable...
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