Nigeness
A hedonic resource
Thursday 25 April 2024
'The age of the statue is dead'
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The unveiling of the latest appalling public statue – of the late Queen and her (rather more lifelike) corgis, in Rutland, a delightful lit...
Wednesday 24 April 2024
A Cather Anniversary
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On this day in 1947, Willa Cather died in her Park Avenue home, at the age of 73, not of the cancer that she had been living with for some ...
Monday 22 April 2024
Birthday, Rain
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Vladimir Nabokov was born on this day in 1899, though by the old calendar it would have been the 10th of April, and the following year it b...
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Sunday 21 April 2024
'A Man Was Drawing Near to Me'
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This morning, I thought I'd try another Blindfold Poetry Selection . The slim volume I blindly took from the shelf turned out to be A C...
Saturday 20 April 2024
London, Glass
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Yesterday I was in London – always something of a shock to the system these days ('I had not thought death had undone so many', et...
Thursday 18 April 2024
Chasing the Devil Out of Texas
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Today is the centenary of the birth, in Vinton, Louisiana, of Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (who got his nickname from a teacher who s...
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Wednesday 17 April 2024
Rowland Suddaby
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This image from the golden age of motoring – an age when oil companies commissioned quality artwork (and quality books, in the form of the ...
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