Erich Fromm, who described himself among other things as a “nontheistic mystic” (I wish I could come up with snappy phrases like that), had some interesting things to say about being awake. Possibly the most immediately accessible was this: “The…
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Now it’s too late: no waiting game, no walking home no digging for a wild epiphany in routine clay The long, long count has fallen silent and my dreams have closed down Sullen sheep refuse to jump: my mail is…
As I walk down Queen Street, Lake Ontario, like a sea, merges into the misty horizon – lacy boundary of some other kingdom and on this side a picket fence and many mansions: this must be my father’s house, but…
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After I had got in the habit of turning the sub-titles on during TV dramas as a matter of course, I realised suddenly that it might not be the Geordie, Liverpool or New York accents to blame after all. I…