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From a Bookseller in Prague
“Who’s that Kafka guy?” I’m being asked, and not for the first time. I’m trying not to answer, but at the same time I’m remembering what a good time I had reading Kafka’s novels and stories years ago, and how … Continue reading
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The French and the Americans
It’s an Air France flight Dallas-London Heathrow. On the ground, a lethal combination of a thorough lack of snow-ploughing equipment, and light snowfall, has thrown the world’s busiest airport into hideous turmoil. Somewhere over the coast of Spain the captain … Continue reading
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Teddy Bear Massacre
Foxes prowl London nightly. They feast on rubbish, skirmish and cavort, and tear things to pieces with their teeth for pleasure. One morning I found the aftermath of a teddy bear massacre. I stepped outside to look at its mutilated … Continue reading
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Is the impact of advances in cosmology on a narrative-driven metaphor-rich human brain appropriate?
Roger Penrose (a prominent cosmologist) has a new idea about the universe: instead of starting outright with the Big Bang, the universe passes through an eternal series of aeons. Each aeon draws toward a close as all matter is sucked … Continue reading
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5,000 Years Collapse Like An Accordion (and reopen a little)
Take this analect from Confucius: “It can all be summed up in one phrase: ‘Swerve not from the right path.’” China boasts 5,000 years of continuous civilisation, resulting in a body of thought which is both rich and deep, and … Continue reading
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ARE YOU A PSYCHOPATH?
Ok – here’s the test. It’s in two parts. PART ONE: You are given the following rule: “If a card shows an even number on one side, then it is red on the other.” These four cards are spread before … Continue reading
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Gulliver’s Bottom
So a discussion over the eggbot man (see below) provoked a number of thoughts, principally concerning what way up is an egg? (Shades of the ongoing wars of Lilliput in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.) One approach immediately posits that the fatter … Continue reading
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Sing Me a Daisy
An Eidophone consists of a hollow funnel with a membrane stretched across it, and a tube attached to its base with a mouthpiece at the far end. Fine powder is sprinkled across the membrane. As you sing down the tube, … Continue reading
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Lithopedion
A lithopedion, or “stone baby”, is a rare obstetrical abnormality which can occur with a failed, usually ectopic, pregnancy. The foetus is not discharged as happens with a traditional miscarriage, but instead remains inside the woman’s belly. The body then … Continue reading
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