Locked Down in Edinburgh (3).
“You know that when I was thirteen years old, I broke my leg. It was actually the lion’s share of …
Tag Archives: Morality
Book Review: Catch-22.
For many people, the COVID-19 pandemic will make death come alive again. With the escalating fatalities and the decimation of …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Drowning
At the Pleasance Courtyard, Jessica Ross’s “Drowning” profiles four nurses who had murdered half their patients. The nurses were – …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Claim.
[The following contains spoilers.] The Edinburgh Fringe has officially started though most of the venues are still closed and those …
The Devil’s Coin.
I once worked in some kitchens where the very best chef was an Italian man named Sergio. I don’t know …
Podcast Review: ars PARADOXICA.
[The following contains spoilers.] Get your thinking caps on, for we are about to consider Daniel Manning and Micha Stanton’s …
The Lessons of WW1.
Thousands of flaming torches were lit this week around the Tower of London, by Beefeaters, as part of an Armistice …
Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help versus Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. Had Samuel Smiles been ever asked …
Book Review: Go, Went, Gone.
[The following contains spoilers.] Jenny Erpenbeck‘s Go, Went, Gone was first published in 2015 and it appeared in English, translated …
Captain Disillusion versus “Dear David.”
Before Christmas, I had a conversation with a French man who I had gotten to know reasonably well over 2017. …
Deconstructing Two Recent Urban Legends: #2 The Elevator Ritual.
You must have heard the one about Elisa Lam. A staple of online paranormal mysteries and conspiracy theories, she is …
The Big Black Man.
The big black man stood in the entrance to the bank’s cafeteria. He was emblazoned on a tall, free-standing plastic …
Brighton Rock and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.”
I was very struck last year when reading Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” (1953) …
The Right to Pornography.
Pornography, as most people eventually discover, bears as much resemblance to reality as the dead surface of the moon does …
The Wee Ginger Dug: A Scottish Horror Story for Halloween.
Fergus and Morag MacAskill lived in a large farmhouse some miles down the road from Inverness. They were eager to …
