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At Sea With Claud Orkish.

December 22, 2022

This is a Christmas story but the brunt of it concerns the sea. It will start in something like the …

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Join Tychy In The Metaverse!

February 18, 2022

This morning, James and I presented ourselves at the front door of a villa in Morningside. James rang the doorbell. …

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Downing Street Parties and the Age of Insincerity.

January 23, 2022

It is self-evident that Boris Johnson should resign because of the “parties” that his government department had held during the …

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The Bane of the Buses.

March 18, 2021

It surely shakes Edinburgh’s status as a capital city that its bus network was finally closed in its entirety yesterday …

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Short Story Review: “Midnight House” and “Across the Moors.”

December 2, 2020

Midnight House and Other Tales (1910) is William Fryer Harvey’s debut volume of short stories. He must have written juvenilia, …

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At Doctor Hwangbo’s.

April 20, 2020

It was not yet ten in the morning but the sky was already straining in its depths with the acutest …

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Podcast Review: The Heads of Sierra Blanca.

April 18, 2020

[The following contains spoilers.] The Paragon Collective is a commercial podcasting house that is based in Los Angeles. It was …

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YouTube Review: Michael Jamison

April 6, 2020

Michael Jamison is a forty-five-year-old retired businessman who lives in a villa in Brakpan, South Africa, with two male tigers. …

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Clearout.

March 22, 2020

Rufus Stewart owns a single-bedroom apartment in Gorgie, which he had until recently rented out to a young barman named …

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Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris versus Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter.

February 12, 2020

INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. THE INFLUENCE OF SAMUEL SMILES’ SELF-HELP. …

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Reading Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris in light of The One Thousand and One Nights.

January 27, 2020

Eugène Sue’s serialised crime novel The Mysteries of Paris (1842-3) begins with a device that had been treasured by contributors …

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Putting a Value on Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris.

December 3, 2019

The central plot-line… is that of a mystery-of-kinship story whose basic literary shape derives from the mystery-romances of Gothic and …

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Book Review: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies.

October 15, 2019

[In taking all of the quotes in this review from an e-book facsimile of The Secret Commonwealth, I have switched …

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The Place of Bitters (Pique-Vinaigre) in The Mysteries of Paris.

October 8, 2019

[Here are some notes on the names that are used in this article.] Almost a thousand pages into his serialised …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre.

August 23, 2019

Is the best show that I have seen so far at this year’s Fringe a one-man play? This would be …

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