What I was writing in the high days of summer.
Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. I will not say it shall be so, but rather I will say: here in this world he changed his life. But many men say that there is written upon his tomb this verse: Hic jacet Arthurus, Rex quondam, Rexque futurus.
I changed my job. It felt like leaping, or swimming, or perhaps grasping at reeds in order not to sink in standing water. It was the last of a suite of changes so widespread as to be talked about idly, but no less a reorientation of my whole life for being so ordinary.
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Those who would never tolerate a repressive State currently accept a repressive pedagogy. (González)
I was at university when we began to talk of horse whisperers. The book, the film, the secret knowledge; the tender servant who with hands and voice brought back broken animals (the spooked, the hurt, the bolters) from whatever haunted their equine dreams. First soothed and then restored, the horses came back to themselves as porters, servants, beast of burden.
While all this was in the air, I went to a house party at which the house dog, a staffie-cross bitch not known for friendliness, took an unexpected liking to a friend of mine. The dog followed my friend from room to room, put her paws on him, tried to lick his face and generally stayed by, adoringly. No-one could see any special reason for this.
You must have special powers, we told my friend, and called him the Dog Whisperer.
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Little squibs, mostly, in accompaniment to Giovanni’s recent travels.
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One or two of the readers who have encountered the term ‘anti-travel’ have decided that it stands for the cessation of all human movement. One blogger, for instance, thought that I wanted to force people to remain permanently in their native villages and suburbs. Worryingly, he seemed to approve of such an idea.
Of course, ‘anti-travel’ isn’t about staying put, but about travelling to unusual places, and thinking in unusual ways whilst exploring these places. (“Brett’s Radical Travels“, Reading the Maps.)
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