Wuthering Expectations
Gammer Gurton's Needle - it would have made thee beshit thee / For laughter
What I Read in August 2025 - But good ale down your throat hath good easy tumbling
Ralph Roister Doister, among the first regular English comedies - Then to our recorder with toodleloodle poop
a fantastic universe where the presence of man was not foreseen - Maurice Herzog's Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak
A readalong of Christopher Marlowe and friends - I fear they know we sent the poison'd broth
What I Read in July 2025 - books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader
Daniel Kehlmann's G. W. Pabst novel The Director - Keeping it light. Keeping it carefree.
What I Read in June 2025 - A life of agony was all for naught.
A draft Elizabethan Not Shakespeare syllabus
Not Shakespeare - a preliminary, semi-formed invitation to read plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries
What I Read in May 2025 – “There’s the store that’s shaped like a duck,” Franca said.
Anthony Powell's style and sensibility - Life is full of internal dramas, instantaneous and sensational, played to an audience of one
How A Dance to the Music of Time works, so far - I always enjoy hearing the details of other people’s lives, whether imaginary or not
Preface to notes on the first four novels of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time
What I Read in April 2025 – Have we cherished expectations?
Languages and literature - Finnegans Wake becomes unbeurrable from age
Some of the difficulties of Finnegans Wake - Two dreamyums in one dromium? Yes and no error.
The key to Finnegans Wake - there is a limit to all things so this will never do
Two novels titled Attila - Maximal words striving to breach an angel
What I Read in March 2025 – Some day, he thought, I must use such a scene to start a good, thick old-fashioned novel
Platonov's Chevengur - “But communism’s about to set in... Why am I finding everything so hard?”
Andrey Platonov's "Soul" - the universal happiness of the unhappy
the calm vegetable clairvoyance of these great rooted lives - John Cowper Powys's trees - wuther-qoutle-glug
Wolf Solent and A Glastonbury Romance - Both the two great forces pouring forth from the double-natured First Cause
What I Read in February 2025 – All human minds are in touch with a dark reservoir of our race’s psychic garbage.
Clarice Lispector's Near to the Wild Heart - When she spoke, she invented crazy, crazy!
What I read in January 2025 - You must understand that truth is fiction, and fiction truth.
Two poisonous Tanizaki novels, Naomi and Quicksand - the same as a fruit that I’d cultivated myself