narcissism — reflections on a metamorphosis
First published, 13th February 2015When the gods turned Narcissus into a flower, Ovid forgot to mention that they turned Echo into the girl from Ipanema.The DSM-V has given narcissism a bad name or, when I reflect on it, has turned a name into a bad word. Maybe it started with Freud’s deliberate – or otherwise…
spring times, shady business and cock cakes
First published, 15th February 2015I still get the flashbacks, wake up in the middle of the night … Did I cry out in my sleep? Pierce Brosnan singing SOS in Mama Mia scarred me for life. Back then, when I stomped around trying to work out whether it was Mel Brooks or Goebbels who first discovered that the shittier…
missed in the fog — ishiguro meets godzilla
First published 5th April 2015Ursula K. Le Guin (a.k.a. Morgan Le Fey) has recently laid a curse on Kazuo Ishiguro (a.k.a. Don Quixote). Now, maybe an unread obscure indie dilettante novelist like myself (a.k.a. Bilbo Baggins) can get away with breaking all the genre rules, you know: write literary fiction beneath the invisibility cloak of…
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