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One Great Man On Another.

October 15, 2019

“This is the dilemma that confronts partisans of resentment: either they must deny Shakespeare’s unique eminence (a painful and difficult …

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2018 in the words of Tychy et al.

December 28, 2018

The White Vault is yet another “found footage” podcast, in supposedly comprising recordings that have been retrieved or salvaged from …

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A Quote for the Year of the Dog.

February 16, 2018

His cunning was wolf cunning, and wild cunning; his intelligence, shepherd intelligence and St. Bernard intelligence; and all this, plus …

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2017 in the words of Tychy et al.

December 28, 2017

Yet the mainstream media and academia failed to highlight these painful truths linked to Obama. Instead, most well-paid pundits on …

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2016 in the words of Tychy et al.

December 28, 2016

Bowie might have been the alien and the androgene to everybody else but it looks like to me, although I’d …

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2015 in the words of Tychy et al.

December 28, 2015

Week 1: Magazine’s editors and staff get No Platformed by the National Union of Students on the grounds that their …

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2014 in the words of Tychy et al.

December 28, 2014

“I see that you spend a lot of time tweeting about Scottish independence…” “I do!” I laughed with surprise. “Over …

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#Indyref Anguish: History Repeating.

September 18, 2014

Is the independence referendum which is taking place today really so historically unique or significant? One of the tasks which …

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2013 in the words of Tychy et al.

December 28, 2013

Thorin Oakenshield: But hang on Sassenach! Most of us aren’t actually Scottish. I for one am played by Richard Armitage …

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An Anecdote Concerning Baron Corvo.

July 25, 2013

Trevor Haddon, at one point an acquaintance of Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo, submitted this anecdote to A.J.A. Symons’ biography The …

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A Quote for Today.

April 8, 2013

“The Thatcher years were marked by a consistent erosion of support for the Tories in Scotland. Seats which had been …

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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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Victoria Branden Sees Her Doppelgänger.

January 8, 2013

“High speed accidents and near-accidents seem to produce “sightings” of one’s double, as do drug over-doses and “anxiety, fatigue, attacks …

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A Quote for Year of the Dragon.

January 23, 2012

“That our entire country has been pervaded by a belief in such terrible creatures we learn from the names of …

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Some Quotes for Halloween.

October 31, 2011

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is …

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Required Reading

Literature

  • Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine.
  • Ghosts and Scholars.
  • Life and Work of Herman Melville.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne at Eldritch Press.
  • Southern Literary Messenger.

Scotland

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  • Cum Lazaro
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  • Flying Rodent.
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  • Ivan Torres
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