Libraries Are Valuable Resources

because, for both good and ill,
words are the fuel of any civil society,
the engine of mutual understanding
and libraries are full of words
so let them go at your peril.
 

 

The Win-Win Situation I Could Live With

I always lost when I used to play monopoly,
usually quite early. I never realised that it was
a game designed to teach (losing) players
how Capitalism worked.
 This is version of Monopoly is one that I
would play more readily, with literacy
and reading everyone is the winner,
it is a big leveller-up. What is there to dislike?

 

Choice With Books

has always been a complex and personal matter.
Thankfully, books are not like possessive children, 
they never  argue back when we put them down
in favour of other characterful material. 

 

A Conversation I Often Have With Myself

And with the cheapness of books,
and their richness compared with other media,
the central point of view is the perspective
I always return to...

 

Bookworm; Noun

A bookworm is not just a voracious reader
but a worm that provides a space that is safe
from the world around the reader
where they can continue to read, undisturbed.  

 

Alien Contact Is Like Family Values

The same parabola arch could also describe
the levels of closeness I have developed with my family
with one variation; my family also contact me around
the time of my birthday, as I do theirs. Dutifully,
 we send each other cards in lieu of knowing how to care
and understand each other any better.  

 

Where 'The Fall' Never Happened

Because empty arguments that blame Adam and Eve
for the mess that the world is in at present cannot exist
there, But open questions about how 'God breathed'
Ada and Steve remain valid enquiries...
  

 

Artifice Of Intelligence

Sarcasm is the insult that likes to hide behind opacity.

 

One Man And His Dog

understanding themselves and each other
in terms that cannot be disputed
even when they are easily misunderstood. 

 

Hypothetically Existent

Existential angst in science occurs more often
than scientists admit actually happens. 

 

Who Knew That Rocks Believed In Anamism?

 

The Spirit Of W. Heath Robinson Lives On

An image drawn recently for The New Scientist
 magazine by author/cartoonist Tom Gault.
  Here is his artist profile with his publisher 
with his publisher Drawn & Quartered.