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Tag Archives: Melancholy.

Down in the Dumps with James Boswell.

January 8, 2013

“…The Hypochondriack is himself at this moment in a state of very dismal depression, so that he cannot be supposed …

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The King Across The Water.

July 3, 2012

Pablo and I sometimes drink with a Spanish agency worker named Felip in the Cloisters pub. When we last came …

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Elegy for an Unemployed Youth.

February 29, 2012

Anybody leaving school these days, without a job or any further education waiting for them, is comparable to the man …

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Illustrations to “Lord Dufferin’s Ghost” (and a Blue Devil).

December 11, 2011

["Once more into the elevator, dear friends..." Tychy's article on the story "Lord Dufferin's Ghost" is here. Ed.]

Tychy@ the Fringe: The Mourning Party and One Fine Day.

August 22, 2011

Tychy saw two plays this afternoon, but unfortunately length was the sticking point with both of them. Anna Forsyth’s “The …

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Heebie Jeebies.

June 25, 2011

Let me take you back several summers to when Marcin was fixated with the pygmies. He had read about the …

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Bewitched in Lovers’ Loan.

March 16, 2011

The suburbs south of the Meadows have a Gothicism all of their own, deriving from a particularly Gothic conception of …

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At the Bottom of the Sea.

February 2, 2011

We seem to have reached a point where James will accept nothing for our website but ghost stories, and I …

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Letter from the Man in the Moon (2).

December 29, 2010

[#1 is here.] My dear Tychy. It has been over two years since you first hinted that your website would …

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The Devil On Your Back (4/7).

December 22, 2010

[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …

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Tychy not so much@ the Fringe today: The Illusionist.

August 28, 2010

Sylvain Chomet’s old-world animation “The Illusionist,” which was released in the UK earlier this month, is based upon a posthumously-recovered …

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Tourist Review (5): “The Lewis Chessmen.”

May 27, 2010

Refurbishment is an impenetrable science, and quite why most of the National Museum of Scotland should be shut down for …

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YouTube.

May 24, 2010

I wish that I could type your name into Youtube, and be presented with a list of little films of …

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A Call from the Deep.

April 28, 2010

The goldfish was floating aimlessly round and round his tank like a bit of song trapped in somebody’s head. Bartek’s …

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Letter from Tori to Marcin.

March 14, 2010

My good old friend. Yesterday I was wandering amongst the rooms of my apartment – smoking, picking apart a newspaper, …

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