July 18th, 2007
Caught the news item “Judge punishes dad for bull running” on Reuters yesterday morning.
A Spanish man who took his 10-year-old son bull running during the annual Pamplona festival last week has had his visitation rights to the boy taken away by a judge.
The youngster’s mother complained to police after seeing a newspaper photograph of her […]
March 24th, 2007
She had blown out the other candles, lit just the night stub at the bedside table and sat there, the Englishman’s body facing her in silence after the wildness of his drunken speeches. ‘Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound. A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire.‘ She could hear the spill of […]
July 7th, 2006
He is watching her, waiting for her to say more, but there is nothing more about the English patient to be said. He mutters. “Some of the English love Africa. A part of their brain reflects the desert precisely. So they’re not foreigners there.”
“The English Patient” - Michael Ondaatje
I was in Cambridge today, colleges, that’s […]