Why live your life through a view-finder?
Photography, once a noble art, has become, thanks to the move to digital, a mental illness, says Nigel Farndale.
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. Click. No time to stand beneath the boughs – click, click – and stare as long as sheep or cows. Click, click, bloody click.
For some time now, my loathing of cameras has been bubbling away on a low heat. The other day it boiled over, leaving my metaphorical cooking surface encrusted with matter that was gluey and black. Continue reading this item…
A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other unused. Only one child played on the unused track, the rest on the operational track.
The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the unused track and [...]
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YoHoHo & A bottle of Aprés Rasage? Large Kouros & Coke for me please!!
Spiney Norman Esq.
St Anne’s-on-Sea?
Lytham St Anne’s
Lancashire
FY-Summink or t’other.
7th December 1998 Bonjour! Spiney,
(Non. Non. Non). Hola! Spiney,
(No. Spanish? Not that either. No. OK. Let’s try again).
Sholem aleichem! Spiney,
(Yiddishe? Fershtay mama-loshen? No? Oy veh! Me, meshuggeneh!).
Ciao! Spiney,
(Commo Italiano? No). Yo! Bro. W’happen?
(Sorry? of course).
Ah, feck it.
Geezer! Continue reading this item…
Full Marx for Karl’s Crytsal Gazing…