Nigeness
A hedonic resource
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Was Johnson a Poet?
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Browsing in the Johnson Society's 2023 Transactions, I found a piece with this arresting title. It's a transcript of the year's ...
Monday, 29 January 2024
Aghast
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I've just finished reading one of the most extraordinary novels I have ever come across, one that actually left me, well, aghast is the...
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Saturday, 27 January 2024
The Butterfly
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For Holocaust Memorial Day, this little poem, which was discovered at Theresienstadt when the camp was liberated. Written on a sheet of thi...
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Thursday, 25 January 2024
Burra
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'Standing next to a small youth at the entrance scholarship examination at the Royal College of Art in London, Eric Ravilious could not...
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
It's That Day Again
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Manet Day again (the anniversary of his birth in 1832) – they come round so fast... In keeping with a long-standing Nigeness tradition, I...
Monday, 22 January 2024
A Surprising Sestina, and an Upbeat One
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For some reason, I was reading about the sestina, a verse form created by a troubadour in the twelfth century, when I came across a surpris...
Friday, 19 January 2024
Gratifying, Ridiculous, Sublime
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'You look like a local,' said the man who hailed me this morning as I strode along by Minster Pool. He wanted to ask me about the l...
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