Issue 16: The Make-Believe, Odyssey, Options
'Every gesture I make is part of a complex code. Everything is part of the ritual.'
Issue 15: Seamus Heaney, Akashic Records, Beginner's Mind
Issue 14: sleepers, beginner’s mind, correspondence, needles
‘In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.’
Issue 13: Bukowski, Knox, and 'authorities'
'How can Proust change your life? Try reading him, for a start.'
Issue 12: various books, being argumentative, caffeine
'Smug, rich and inert, we fall below the means test for pity.'
The Mountain (Which Mountain?)
He longs for the one line to give them that they will always remember, that will embrace everything, that will point the way, but he cannot find the line, he cannot recognise it.