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Vanilla and the strange passage of time
There is a word for the love of the smell of books. Bibliosmia. Someone at some point decided this experience was specific and universal enough to deserve its own name,...
Vanilla and the strange passage of time
There is a word for the love of the smell of books. Bibliosmia. Someone at some point decided this experience was specific and universal enough to deserve its own name,...
The day I started listening to goats
I have been thinking about goats lately. Not because I own one, or have developed any sudden interest in mountain climbing (both remain firmly outside my current life plan), but...
The day I started listening to goats
I have been thinking about goats lately. Not because I own one, or have developed any sudden interest in mountain climbing (both remain firmly outside my current life plan), but...
The problem with seeing giants
I was somewhere between Matjiesfontein and Laignsburg, alone on the N1 with nothing but the Karoo for company, when I noticed I wasn't alone.He was already in the passenger seat....
The problem with seeing giants
I was somewhere between Matjiesfontein and Laignsburg, alone on the N1 with nothing but the Karoo for company, when I noticed I wasn't alone.He was already in the passenger seat....
Ordinary men who make magic
My father is a reader.Not an academic reader. Not a man who underlines things or keeps a reading journal or obsess about narrative structure. He likes Wilbur Smith and Clive...
Ordinary men who make magic
My father is a reader.Not an academic reader. Not a man who underlines things or keeps a reading journal or obsess about narrative structure. He likes Wilbur Smith and Clive...
Braais and the art of building worlds that don'...
There is no document that explains how a braai works.Nobody sat down and wrote the rules. There was no orientation, no handbook distributed at some point in your childhood, no...
Braais and the art of building worlds that don'...
There is no document that explains how a braai works.Nobody sat down and wrote the rules. There was no orientation, no handbook distributed at some point in your childhood, no...
An email about The Divine Comedy and Mrs. Ball'...
At the start of the 1300s, Dante Alighieri made a decision that scandalized the literary establishment of his time. He chose to write in Italian (specifically the Tuscan dialect of...
An email about The Divine Comedy and Mrs. Ball'...
At the start of the 1300s, Dante Alighieri made a decision that scandalized the literary establishment of his time. He chose to write in Italian (specifically the Tuscan dialect of...