Issue 158

..when I find myself there. The lights are very weak and the shadows and dark and endless. The switched are old, round and made of metal and sometimes they do nothing. There are doors down each side of the corridor. Often the doors are shut. Above some doors is a glass panel where occasionally the…

..deliberately flouted and subverted. On the other hand this dereliction of governmental responsibility has given me ample time to attend to my inner thoughts and develop an almost Buddhist tranquillity and acceptance of the vagaries of travel. Or the absence of movement. My Zen training began in my early days of commuting. It was a…

.. the Rudd boys originated. As a film it exemplified the last embers of ember that were still being instilled in the bosom of New Zealand’s youth. What I had not realised was that the 2.6-metre tall marble statue, which was badly damaged in the earthquake, had been sculpted by Scott’s wife Kathleen. It had…

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..where you might be going. A period, or even a singularity, when one realises that this is as good as it gets. When you have achieved the right balance between youthful folly and the wisdom of age – a brief moment in time – such as when Goldilocks found the best porridge, chair and bed…

..the French. Who else would give this sensationalist and disturbing book two major awards – it would never have made it onto the short list of the anglospheric Man Booker – and have it leap into best seller status? Now while I am an unabashed Francophile, but I must confess that they do take intellectualism…