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It is better to laugh at man from inside the Void,  than to weep for him without ...     I.    Regular readers will know that I've recen...

  Frankenstein's Monster x Ludwig Wittgenstein [1]   'Thinking has interests that do not coincide with those of the living ...' ...

  Stephen Alexander / Simon Solomon Dear Simon, Thank you for your remarks on a recent post entitled ' Yabba Dabba Doo! ' (28 Feb 20...

Above: Harry Worth demonstrating the comic potential of a mirror image in 1962  Below: an illustration by N. Burgess showing the chemical st...

Messrs. Lovecraft and Burns   I.   My love is like a red, red rose ...    For many people - indeed, we can almost certainly say most peop...

  I.    I was interested to hear the Chairman of the D. H. Lawrence Society, Mr Alan Wilson, claim in a recent sermon streamed live from St....

  The biosphere cannot exist without exchange  and interaction with the chthonic thanatosphere   I.    My friend Heide recently sent me a li...

Damien Hirst: Black Sun (2004)  Flies and resin on canvas (144" diameter) Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates  © Damien Hirst and S...

The nihilist and the transcendental idealist     Recently, I started exploring the speculative writings of British philosopher and sci-fi au...