Thou Art The Man
I will now play the Oedipus to the Rattleborough enigma. I will expound to you as I alone can the secret of the enginery that…
Literature
Bookshop Memories
When I worked in a second-hand bookshop so easily pictured, if you don’t work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen…
Three And An Extra
“When halter and heel ropes are slipped, do not give chase with sticks but with gram.” Punjabi Proverb. After marriage arrives a reaction, sometimes a…
The Death Of Lully
The sea lay in a breathing calm, and the galley, bosomed in its transparent water, stirred rhythmically to the slow pulse of its sleeping life.…
The Wandering Jew
‘If you go once round the world in an easterly direction, you gain one day,’ said the men of science to John Hay. In after…
How It Happened
She was a writing medium. This is what she wrote: I can remember some things upon that evening most distinctly, and others are like some…
The Ship That Found Herself
It was her first voyage, and though she was but a cargo-steamer of twenty-five hundred tons, she was the very best of her kind, the…
An Alpine Pass On Ski
There is nothing peculiarly malignant in the appearance of a pair of “ski.” They are two slips of elm wood, 8ft. long, 4in. broad, with…
The Track Of A Lie
“Consequences of our acts eternal? Bosh!” said Blawkins, at the Club. “That’s what the Padres say. See, now!” The smoking-room was empty, except for Blawkins…
The Cat That Walked By Himself
Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and be happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.…
In The Avu Observatory
The observatory at Avu, in Borneo, stands on the spur of the mountain. To the north rises the old crater, black at night against the…
The City Of Dreadful Night
The dense wet heat that hung over the face of the land, like a blanket, prevented all hope of sleep in the first instance. The…
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