Tomorrow I’m going to Spain for three weeks. I expect I’ll get to an internet café and blog something sooner or later, but I don’t know when that’s likely to be. I’m planning to keep napowrimoing, and I’ll post them when I get the chance.
Tag: Heraclitean Fire
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Monthly searches
some search-engine queries that led to this blog in March:
racism against blacks photo
self portrait poems about laughter
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ashley cole is a muslim
pictures of peacocks mating
ten different animals that live in the sea
exotic beach bunns
I must admit, after the humiliation in Pakistan, I was starting to lose faith, but England’s performance to tie the series in India without Vaughan, Trescothick, Simon Jones or Ashley Giles, and for the last game without Harmison and Cook as well, was seriously impressive.
BTW, isn’t Marcus Trescothick just the perfect name for the hero of a bodice-ripper? Even better than the current Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education and Skills, whose name is Lord Adonis. I kid you not. Perhaps Lord Adonis could be the scheming, predatory English aristocrat, and Marcus Trescothick could be the swarthy, taciturn Cornishman who rescues the heroine from his clutches.
“Oh my darling, I know I’m vulnerable to well-pitched-up deliveries outside off stump, but can’t you see I love you?”
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Search terms for February
Some faves:
blogs about sir henry raeburn
very sex
transfigured joke
pictures of singing mice
pictures of the ancient pulse of germ and birth
naughty schoolboy poems
top ten animals that rule
what would bentham think of cannabis
difference between dinosaurs and reptiles
coughing and racism
building a fire in the wildness
The more time I spend thinking about web design, the more easily irritated I am. Take Spork. Look at that lovely, stylish, front cover: it manages to have something of a print aesthetic without being heavy-handed, and it’s clear, simple and eye-catching. Classy.
But then you click on the names, and the links open as new windows. Like I don’t have enough windows cluttering up my screen all the time as it is. Look, I never, ever want any link I click to open as a new screen unless I specifically tell it to.
And you just know that they’re only done it that way because someone didn’t want navigation buttons cluttering up his nice neat page layouts. Humph.
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Pope’s ‘An Essay on Criticism’
All Fools have still an Itching to deride,
And fain wou’d be upon the Laughing Side;
Whatever Nature has in Worth deny’d,
She gives in large Recruits of needful Pride;
Be not the first by whom the New are try’d,
Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside.
(Thus Wit, like Faith by each Man is apply’d
To one small Sect, and All are damn’d beside.)
While their weak Heads, like Towns unfortify’d,
‘Twixt Sense and Nonsense daily change their Side.
And never shock’d, and never turn’d aside,
Bursts out, resistless, with a thundering Tide!
Gen’rous Converse; a Sound exempt from Pride;
And Love to Praise, with Reason on his Side?