Early Nightfall

One of my favourite contemporary artists, Conor Obert, sings in “At the bottom of everything”:

We must rip out all the epilogues in the books that we have read

and although I greatly enjoy his music, I must strongly disagree with him: I love epilogues.
I realized this again after finishing the latest Harry Potter, The Deathly [...]

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Geometry and the Imagination

A book about Geometry, with lots of words and pictures, and hardly any formulas? It seems to work, and is mightily interesting!

Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections

Haven’t started reading this yet, but I’ve been fascinated by map projections for a long time. The [...]

As far as I can be said to have a favourite author, it would be John Fowles. He is a tremendously gifted story teller with a literary writing style unfortunately often construed as verbose and overly complex. I personally hugely enjoy his style, the intellectual atmosphere, his sense of literary experimentation, and especially his analysis [...]

When reading Paul Theroux’s “The kingdom by the sea” I came across the following paragraph. He wrote it whilst standing on the Isle of Skye, looking at the Cuillins:

I stayed and climbed part way up a red mountain merely to have another glimpse at the Cuillins. I did not go any closer.
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Whilst looking up a word in the dictionary, I got a glimpse into a nice bit of self-irony:

hack (V.), n. Perh. abbr. hackney (I.),
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2. (fig.,contempt.) Person employed to do dull,
tedious work, such as dictionary-making, the
writing of inferi or newspaper articles,

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or other forms of drudgery.
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note for [...]

How beautiful an ending to a book can be!
He smiled and took her hand and pressed it. They got up and walked out of the gallery. They stood for a moment at the balustrade and looked at Trafalgar Square.
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Cabs and omnibuses hurried to and fro, and crowds passed, hastening [...]