3 Markings - The Future of Literature
'To find a form that accommodates the mess,' said Samuel Beckett, 'that is the task of an artist'. ©Jeff Guess 2017
xii. Signs and Wonders - Figs
Figs: Early 13c. From Old French figue, from Old Provencal figa, from Vulgar Latin fica, from Latin ficus. The Great Depression On the...
xi. Signs and Wonders - Bread
Bread: Old English, bread ‘bit, crumb, morsel; bread,’ Old English breotan ‘to break in pieces’. Lives from a Country Town i. The woman...
2 Markings - William Morris
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris The true secret of happiness...
1 Markings - Vanishing Voices
Vanishing Voices One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will...
Comic Verse 2 - 'It was a dark and stormy night . . .'
©Jeff Guess 2017
x. Signs and Wonders - Pigeons
Pigeon: noun: late 14c. (early 13c. as a surname), from Old French pigeon "young dove" (13c.), probably from Vulgar Latin *pibionem,...
Tumby Bay Jetty
Tumby Bay Jetty for my father 1923-1998 An older distance between the pylons has shrunk to a small gait of planks that jut this cold...
ix. Signs and Wonders - Sparrows
Sparrows Old English spearwa, from Proto Germanic sparwan (cf. Old Norse spörr, Old High German sparo, German Sperling, Gothic sparwa)....
