Tag Archives: imagination

Year of the Pig…

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Stuart France

Image – Sue Vincent * The device of riddling is common to most traditional cultures. Maidens set riddles for their suitors: ‘What is sweeter than mead…?’ ‘What is whiter than snow…?’ ‘What is lighter than a spark…?’ * Antagonists use … Continue reading →

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Walking with grief…

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Stuart France

Image – Sue Vincent * ‘I cried like some grandmother, I wanted to tear my teeth out, I didn’t know what I wanted to do.’ – Walter E.Kurtz, Apocalypse Now. * The ‘Good Colonel’ is here reacting to a particularly … Continue reading →

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Big Stone Culture…

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Stuart France

Two-Thousand-and-Twenty-Three an Asylum Reality… ‘That could almost be the watchtower of Amon Sul…’ *** … Exclaimed one of our Companions on their first view of Carl Wark. It was a well observed remark and one Tolkien himself would, perhaps, have … Continue reading →

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Soul-Seer…

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Stuart France

Bryn Celli Ddu – Interior *** Deep in the belly of the earth, somewhere in Wales… Bark Jaw-Dark was under attack… First she was a speck, black against the sky, then she was an arrow balancing the breeze, finally, after … Continue reading →

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‘Planet Ape’…

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Stuart France

A Nineteen-Sixty-Eight film allegory… * The final scene… * Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awake from hibernation after a near-light-speed space trip. Their spacecraft crashes into a lake on an unknown planet. Taylor’s estimate places them in Orion’s Bellatrix System, … Continue reading →

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Also seeing beyond the eye…

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Stuart France

Ride a White Swan… *   Things really started to slide when John Lydon left the Pistols… The second Pistols album, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, was… well, a swindle actually. Their third, Flogging a Dead Horse, did just that. … Continue reading →

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Time Bleed…

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Sue Vincent

*** … “Stratford Strange Day!” “I don’t know what you mean?” “Well, the first thing was our conversation before we’d even properly decided we were going to Stratford…” “Which one?” “Statues!” “Oh, that one. It didn’t strike me as particularly … Continue reading →

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Seeing beyond the eye too…

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Stuart France

The original seven inch single picture cover. *** Death Disco is a song by Public Image Ltd  (abbreviated and stylized as PiL) who are an English ‘post-punk band’ formed by lead vocalist John Lydon, of Sex Pistols infamy, guitarist Keith … Continue reading →

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Seeing beyond the eye…

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Stuart France

Picture – Ian Dunster from the original UK 45 rpm single picture cover. Fair use… * This, to my current sensibilities, now rather garish picture cover launched me into the real world sometime back in the late seventies… * The … Continue reading →

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The Moons of Mountain Ana…

Posted on June 30, 2023 by Stuart France

* Mountain Ana made the phone to scream. Squeal of a thousand and one pigs! Fingers of pain scratch my brain…  She is upset that Gramps has traded her ring. ‘Soz, Mountain Ana.’ * When Gramps turned up wearing Nancy’s … Continue reading →

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