torpedo the ark

'La subtilité du pouvoir s’opère par la disrythmie ...'     I.    I was amused by the fact that Roland Barthes was a little shocked ...

Two girls in Newcastle (1970) Photo by Laszlo Torday    I.    The other day, on a sunny afternoon, as Ray Davies would say, I attended a mee...

A mottoware jug made by the Watcombe Pottery (Torquay) [1] For many years, my mother owned a little ceramic jug decorated with a picture of ...

Taffy From the Objects Make Happy series   (SA/2024) [1]     I.    At the heart of Graham Harman's object-oriented philosophy is the no...

Fig. 1: Paul Gauguin: Jug Self-portrait (1889) Fig. 2: Friar Tuck character jug made in England (mid-20thC)   I.    The 19th-century French...

  Grenouille aux champignon     As if the rise of irradiated black frogs in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone wasn't enough to think about, ...

Traditionally, candles are used on All Souls' Day to provide  light for the poor souls languishing in purgatorial darkness.     All Sou...

      I suppose it's due to the red and white design, but the flower on the left makes me think of my mother - or, more precisely, of my...

A favourite photo of my mother (taken in 1947, aged 21)     "Does being able to live without someone you loved  mean you loved her less...

Lily of the valley ( Convallaria majalis ) Photo by Ivar Leidus on Wikimedia Commons     A reader writes:   "I was shocked to discover ...

Osterglocken (SA/2023)   "When all at once I saw a crowd / A host, of golden daffodils ..."     I.    Often known by its Latin na...

Me and My Mother (c. 1969)     I.    I was in two minds about whether to speak or stay silent at my mother's funeral service, which was ...