Fixed.
In the distracted, half-aimless way that she does these things, Tori had decided to set up a brand new company. …
Tag Archives: Christianity
Tychy@ the Fringe: Hildegard of Bingen.
Perhaps the most satisfying variety of solo show is that such as the one written and performed by Linn Maxwell …
The Haunted Ball.
I had coffee with my friend Anna in the Bongo Club today, and she told me an interesting story. The …
Tourist Review (4): St Clement’s Church.
[Last year, Tourist Review weighed up the merits of Rosslyn Chapel, the Tron pub, and Tantallon Castle. This lazy and …
A Portrait of Algernon Blackwood (2/6): Nature and Responsibility.
Mike Ashley’s Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood (2001) offers a treasury of anecdotes about the author and …
Book Review: A Christmas Carol.
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843) begins with an insistence that Jacob Marley is as dead as Hamlet’s father. Yet …
The Bride of Christ.
Mary Polly had risen before dawn to prepare for the prayer-picnic. Her sleepy brain was not yet laced properly into …
A story of naive horror.
“Cautiously, I put indirect questions [about spiritualism] to my father, who at once – the clumsy questions betraying me – detected …
Tourist Review: Rosslyn Chapel.
Rosslyn Chapel is the senile great-grandfather of some of Edinburgh’s most infamous architectural monstrosities; its genes prickle within the Scott Monument, …
The Resurrection of Christ.
After Marcin left the city, I lost my mind and I tried to kill myself. When I look back on …
Dr William Maginn: A Saint Patrick’s Day essay.
In Doctor William Maginn’s “Irish Songs,” which was published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in 1822, the ensign Morgan Odoherty lists …
Environ-Mental Attack: Algernon Blackwood’s “The Man Whom The Trees Loved.”
Ah, what am I reading? At first, it looks like something by D.H. Lawrence, although it was written in 1912, …
Book Review: Why Mrs Blake Cried.
The literary critic Niall Griffiths has protested that Marsha Keith Schuchard’s Why Mrs Blake Cried: William Blake and the Erotic …
Book Review: The Life Story of Brigham Young.
Whatever followed the founding of Salt Lake City – whether socialist utopia or totalitarian regime – was a sociological experiment …
Letter from an Atheist.
Dear Tychy. I am writing to inform you of the terrible events which have lately devastated my career. Two years …
