JANE EYRE’S GOTHIC SHADOW AND WUTHERING HEIGHTS’ GOTHIC STONE
Gothic is a rather subjective term but the novels Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) and Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) transcend literary…
UTILITARIANISM – DEFINING THE IDEAL AND EXTIRPATING THE DOGMA
Utilitarianism defines good as “the greatest happiness for the greatest number”. It's an aspiration to make real choices based on…
WALKING: MAP LOADS SLOW BUT CACHES AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT
When you move through the world on foot it is slow, but the detail is unparalleled. Distilled into memory, the…
POSTMODERNISM – BLUEPRINT FOR WESTERN IRRELEVANCE
Today, three full generations after its birth in the 1940s, postmodern thinking has engendered a uniquely degraded democratization of creative…
COGNITIVE ASSONANCE
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE is a psychological state, observed when a brain holds onto a belief (about reality) in the face of…
CONVENTIONS STAY BORING BUT HOPE? DOESN’T SPRING ETERNAL
we're in the yangtime now. Conditions have changed. Just as important, any younger friends are now the age I was…
“KILLING TIME” in Battersea Park
"KIlling Time" is a short poem (of sorts) written in June 2016 at the height of a certain mindset that'll…
LAZY TO LAMBENT – THANK YOU WILLIAM BLAKE
"What I've observed in the past is when my brain is depleted of certain resources, it gets tetchy at things…
THE EGO BABY SCREAMS AND SCREAMS
It begins easy: the detoxification. Detox. The time was right. The environment was ready. Last drop of fentanyl sublingually on…
Journal: “tesst wghen wrirtinting witgot withou7t correctiongh he errorors”
Extracts from the first weeks of a detox journal kept throughout the summer of 2016.