February 2012
14 posts
“Little did I realise that the only reason why anyone listens to Front Row is...”
– The Archers, my story of ridicule and belonging - Blottr
WatchZürich, looking east from the Lindenhof
WatchJosh Ritter — Why
Featured on the forthcoming six-track EP Bringing in the Darlings (via Paste)
It’s always great to hear the grand piano in...
“Around this time, I was summoned to London to meet C. P. Snow, the author of the...”
– My grandfather on meeting C. P. Snow
“Most of the rest, when one had tried to probe for what books they had read,...”
– C. P. Snow in The Two Cultures on interviewing 40,000 or so scientists and engineers in the years during and after WWII. Particulaty noteworthy, as my maternal grandfather was one of that group.
“For constantly I felt I was moving among two groups—comparable in intelligence,...”
– C. P. Snow in his opening to The Two Cultures. Apt, having spent the evening at Burlington House
Candlemas
With certitude
Simeon opened
ancient arms
to infant light.
Decades
before the cross, the tomb
and the new life,
he knew
new life.
What depth
of faith he drew on,
turning illumined
towards deep night.
— Denise Levertov