Undeaths and Double-Lives
Halloween – now duly extended to include the entire month of October – is, after New Years, the most introspective time of year. At the dawning of each new year we take a moment to take stock of our future…
Tag Symbolism
Miniature
Stories are terrifyingly powerful in a way we frequently don’t notice. Everyone knows the difference between fiction and reality, or they think they do – and, indeed, they probably know the difference between real and fictional events, but that’s not…
Lines
There’s no such thing as a line. Lines are wholly conceptual. They are a thing that we perceive rather than a thing that exists. The lines that we see emerge wherever we perceive a division between one thing and another…
Focus
I finally got new glasses, after a couple of years of financially-induced nakedfacing. It’s kind of amazing being able to see again. It feels like a superpower. It feels like, within the constraints of a couple of inches of glass…
Neverending Nightmares
[moderate spoilers for Neverending Nightmares] I like dreams, and stories about them. Though they never capture quite what it feels like to exist in a dream space, though they never quite emulate that constantly shifting boundary that builds itself based…
Reduction of Metaphor
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience…