August 2010
15 posts
Edwin Morgan, RIP →
“It isn’t in the castle, it isn’t in the mist It’s a calling of the waters as they break to show The new black death with reactors aglow Do you think your security can keep you in purity? You will not shake us off Above or below”
Edwin Morgan, Scottish Fiction
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"The House Telegraph"
Punch Magazine nails Twitter 150 years before its launch.
A Telegraph all over London? The wires brought to within 100 yards of every man’s door? A Company established to carry it out? Well - I don’t know. There’s a good deal to be said on both side. It certainly would be pleasant to be within five minutes of such a message as “Dine at the Club with me at...
“Darwin is one of my heroes, but I believe he was wrong in seeing human evolution...”
– Archaeologist and anthropologist Timothy Taylor explains how a long-vanished artefact explains human evolution and led to “survival of the weakest”
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