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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

Tree Surgery

November 21, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I would have written about the necessary culling of a tree in our front garden, but Libran Writer did it so much better that I’ll help you jump to her post.

The Christmas Tree that had to go.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: adam kay, booklink, cancer, libran writer, tree surgery

Missing Notes Left in Space

October 6, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Libran Writer posted earlier this year about a visit to see an exhibition in Margate. The post was ten months ago, which seems almost as hard to believe as that the visit itself had occurred exactly a year before. Since I’m married to Libran Writer, you won’t be surprised to learn that I was there too. We had stumbled into the show the day before the official opening so we had the place pretty much to ourselves. What a treat that was.

Katie Paterson’s ‘Totality’ and me near a grand piano in Margate 2019.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: antony gormley, art, beethoven, jmw turner, katie paterson, libran writer, margate, Olafur Eliasson, rene magritte, Tate Modern, travel, turner contemporary

Uncertainties, Alright Jack?

September 13, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

This Robin bathes most days in our plant pot saucers.
The Road Not Taken
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
ROBERT FROST
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: bram stoker, human rights, libran writer, Maslow, photos, poetry, robert frost, supply chain

Banquet Gānbēi

August 30, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I’m on the mailing list for the The London Review of Books and every now and then their Diverted Traffic anti-news newsletter catches me with an appetite for a morsel from their archives.

While I enjoy these essays, reviews and stories, I savour the memories that they invoke. I’m living a lot of my life in my head at the moment and remembering unusual experiences gives me food for thought and a recipe for journaling.

  • Saturn V, NASA Clear Lake, 1985
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, china, food, franz kafka, geophysics, gustav kirchhoff, lia mills, libran writer, long ling, lrb, nasa, photography, science fiction, teaching, texas, travel

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