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Universal Challenges: Part 1

April 13, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I’m having an epiphany. My moment of revelation actually lasted about ninety minutes. It wasn’t the first time I was traumatised by a television. That happened first in the World at War in the scene where a chicken farmer was splashed by brains. The mood music and laconic narration of Laurence Olivier helped fix this scene forever in my memory. We were shown how the grey matter that had just been thinking terror had sullied the splendid military uniform of a man for whom executions were timed as a newsreel opportunity. Such was Himmler’s power that people slaughtered other people just to appease him. Such was the wilful ignorance in Nazi Germany that this wasn’t considered abnormal behaviour.

Natural recovery underway at the many scales of a local woodland I walked this morning.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: george monbiot, lia mills, libran writer, photos, seaspiracy, the guardian, the world at war

Jarndyce v Enough

April 11, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘The dolphins may save us’ said the farmer, the wind farmer, the former wind farmer with whom I shared a bizarre sighting of three mallard. We sometimes walk the same park path, shuffling past one another, maintaining an exaggerated social spacing as befits the age.

Hail on my car this morning.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: charles dickens, dublin array, fintan o'toole, irish times, national childrens hospital, recycling

Durable Thoughts

April 10, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Books are so durable that I’ve been enjoying dipping into tomes that we’ve owned for decades. Some of them were owned by others for decades before us. And there are some in this house that were printed decades before we were even born. Perhaps you too enjoy signs of the use of the thoughts among margin notes that often match the hand writing of names of former owners inscribed inside the often sun-faded covers. And wonder who they were?

Fuji X-T4 |  Fuji XF18-55 F2.8-4 R LM OIS | 27 mm | 1/200s | f/13 | ISO 160 | handheld
Acros+R film simulation
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: books, libraries, manchán magan, wayback machine, wikipedia

Ogham, Cartouche or Glyph

April 8, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘Follow the cartouche!’ is not what you’d expect native American trackers to say but it’s one trick that The Shadow Wolves can use to find people who have crossed into Arizona from Mexico. It seems that our shoe brands in soft soils or sands are as useful as a wall for immigration control.

Black Powder Pier Ogham?
Nion over luis, ash over rowan?
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, emoji, gps, martin pirongs, mayan, photos, susan connolly, writing

Futures and Visions

April 7, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Imagine you are thinking of the future in the past. You are in back 1974 and you think that ‘any word you you speak this afternoon will radiate out in all directions, around the town before tomorrow, out and around the world before Tuesday’. I wish I could have had that thought then. Sure it’s wrong in detail but in principle, it was visionary. Computing has evolved rapidly despite the fact that fifty years later we are still pretty much tied to a keyboard. Global telephony has been upgraded and milliseconds are today’s measure of communication time rather than days. Our voices do radiate out in video and audio streams but much of our thinking is spread by text. It’s still the case that text is faster to comprehend. The limit isn’t the technology, it’s a biological constraint.

Perhaps robins use quantum entanglement to navigate.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: erwin schrödinger, lewis thomas, quantum computing, the elders

Naturist Caving Fear

April 6, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘It was in a cave near there that De Selby encountered St Augustine and surrealistic visions of eternity.’ or so I wrote last October of a cave in a cove where naturists liked to hang out. I’m not contending that De Selby or St Augustine were advocates let alone dedicated to meeting au naturel but far stranger things happened in The Dalkey Archive. By the way, the naturists I often encountered while walking the dog have recently moved around the head to the Vico Bathing place. In case you were curious.

193 seconds from January 2013 – De Selby could have seen this from White Rock.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: alan garner, booklink, flann o'brien, photo, robert macfarlane

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