Category Archives: Certainties
Proust Remembered
Really going to the dogs around here. I keep seeing fluffy white hounds but they don’t seem to see me so I’m hoping that’s a good thing. Paranoia strikes deep. So old school. So old. You can’t be concerned. You … Continue reading
Posted in Absurdities, Certainties, Writers
Tagged Marcel Proust, Scot Moncrieff, The Great War
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Mad Micky Packs It July 26
Nobody called him that. “Mad”. Except my father-in-law whose mother, Amelia, was Edward “Mick” Mannock’s cousin. “Micky” yes, but surely not “mad”. I was re-reading ole father-in-law’s autobiography after 20 years, one of 37 books he published, and I didn’t … Continue reading
Long Walk to Freedom -The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
“This is the land where the Pharaoh died”. Madiba didn’t come from ancient Egypt. He grew up at the other end of the continent in the 1920s, born July 18, 1918. Xhosa children. Advertising makes it taste better. He was … Continue reading
