A hospital. Boundaries are present everywhere, but in a hospital they hold particular importance. To prevent the spread of bacterial infections, to give patients privacy and respect, to hold documents with personal information, to allow doctors, researchers and students to work in peace. What stops me from accessing these areas of the hospital? How far …
Photography by Stelios Efstathopoulos who stumbles through the streets of Athens in an attempt to interest and inspire. See more of his work at steliosefstathopoulos.tumblr.com The scene is a courtyard. Flooded by shadow here it is cool and slow, sound reduced to the muffled noise a passive listener might hear when covering their ears from the …
Written in 1914 and published five years later, In The Penal Colony is another of Franz Kafka’s famous short stories, or novellas, which reads in that Kafkaesque way that is so unique to one of the major writers of 20th century literature. The story takes place in a penal colony, unsurprisingly; a settlement of prisoners and officers on an …
Photography from Görkem Keser. I stumbled across Görkem while researching street photography in Europe, and he has a great range of work in his home town of Istanbul. Check out more of his work at gorkemkeser.tumblr.com A feral pigeon – of the street variety, common across the country and abundant in all cities – is …
Photograph taken by Craig Bagno, who may ‘walk aimlessly’ through New York, but manages to capture some great moments of life in the city. Check out more at bagnostian.tumblr.com The car slowed to a crawl and came to a stop at the side of the road. The windows rolled down with deliberance as if the …
And so The Border Trilogy – Cormac McCarthy’s sprawling coming-of-age epic set in the Southwest and Mexico – comes to a close. In All The Pretty Horses young John Grady Cole leaves home with a friend and throws himself deep into an impossible relationship in a dangerous land. And in The Crossing we are introduced to Billy Parham, whose multiple crossings …
John Hersey was one of the first Western journalists to witness the devastation that the atomic bomb caused which reduced the vast part of Hiroshima to ruins. Published in 1946, Hiroshima focuses on six survivors of an atomic bomb dropped on their city. Six people from different walks of life who started that fateful day at varying …
I leave for a two week trip around Croatia tomorrow morning. The plan was to put up another Lovecraft post before I went away, but it’s been a busy week, my flight is in 6 hours and I’m exhausted. Not gonna happen. Instead I thought I’d share a picture of Dad and I, celebrating my …
“Then suddenly I saw it. With only a slight churning to mark its rise to the surface, the thing slid into view above the dark waters. Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous …
I’m going to (try to) start blogging. I’m a little unsure as to what I will actually be writing or posting about. The first few posts will probably centre around observations and analysis of books I’ve read recently. Having just finished university and with a lot more free time now, I’m trying to read as …