With my sincerest apologies to the memory of John Keats. Read the rest of this entry »
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After fifteen months of solid blogging I’ve decided to take a short summer break to recharge my batteries. Over the next two or three weeks there are unlikely to be any new posts on The Equaliser, but I’ll be back at the end of the month with the start 1980s Month and a couple of reviews of books that I’m currently working my way through. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, here we are. After 365 days of hammering away at keys, pasting pictures from Google images and dealing with accusations of pomposity on Twitter, The Equaliser has arrived at its first birthday (a day of celebration shared with other such luminaries as Benoît Assou-Ekotto and The Undertaker) with arthritic fingers and only moderately impaired vision.
“I’m youth, I’m joy. I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” - J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
Agelessness is something humanity has sought throughout its history. Since we have had the ability to tell stories there have been tales of everlasting beauty, myths of eternal youth; our search for solace taking the role of the apocryphal amidst our battle with the second law of thermodynamics. While the quest for the undying spring may be a hopeless task, there are some who represent a certain juvenescence, a modicum of hypothetical resistance to the entropic slide that surrounds us. Read the rest of this entry »
Things may be a little quiet around here for the next week or so… Read the rest of this entry »
