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Alex Heron
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Short-story writer. Very fond of marzipan, chocolate, sherry trifle. Chekhov. The idea of a parrot.
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Quote with your model of masculinity
Maria Prymachenko - young lion. A painting of a lion in a semi-fierce looking pose - the lion predominantly a vivid pink colour, covered with yellow flowers, yellow mane with dotted fringe.
December 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Edmund Dulac - Woman and Bears. Two docile polar bears padding along under a starry night sky, one either side of a young woman dressed in a shimmering white costume.
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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3 disconcerted-looking ducklings in a woven basket, slung over someone's arm. From the Tomb of Kagemni, ancient Egypt. Not my photo.
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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"It is considered unwise to whisper one's secrets to the wind," I said.
She looked at me after long reflection and asked sombrely, "Are you the wind?"
"Part of it," I said.

Still enjoying Halldór Laxness's 'The Fish Can Sing', after all these years.
Cover of 'The Fish Can Sing', showing a street scene with bunting, a church with bell-tower, buting and flags, the street thronged with people.
May 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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"On Saturday mornings her aunt left the apartment door open, as did Francis, honoring the unbuttoned quality of the day."

Loving these short stories by Edith Pearlman.
The cover of Edith Pearlman's book of short stories 'Binocular Vision'
April 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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"On the main highway the resentful landscape showed itself to him ..."

I am enjoying these lyrical stories in 'Heart Songs', Annie Proulx.
The cover of the book of stories Heart Songs, by Annie Proulx. Shows a man in dungarees, very serious expression, playing a fiddle.
March 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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a six-word story

(not mine)
A road scene with two signs on poles. One reads: warning low flying owls. The other, hand-written, gives a phone number to call and the words: lost chihuahua.
March 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Fox anyone ... ?

Jackie Morris
Painting of a fox walking jauntily along, carrying a parasol
March 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Love this strange and beautiful photo
Frieda Kahlo leaning against a white wall - next to a mirror which seems to be inset into the wall, where we might have expected a window - so that we see her reflection too. She wears a long black dress, and a black headdress, and a black choker/collar. At her feet, two smallish brown dogs are sniffing about.
March 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Oh, how divine it would be to receive one of these little cakes!

(Cakes (sadly), photo, not mine)
A plate of cupcakes, each one extravagantly and beautifully decorated with icing in the form of flowers (all yellows, greens and whites). Roses, sunflowers, and others ...
March 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Pomegranates - the royalty of fruits.

Roman, hellenistic. Photo not mine.
A clay pomegranate, glazed red except for the 'crown' at the top. A bit blotchy and looks ancient, as do all pomegranates.
March 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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[again: not my photo]
A cluttered street kitchen in Cairo with 2 men working at the sink / worktop. On a bench, holding cups of tea, 2 customers -the gods Anubis and Horus. Both wear flip-flops. Horus (with painted toe-nails) has an ankle length dress in a leopard-skin pattern. Anubis what looks like a home-made dress / gown made partly from an Adidas sweatshirt. They look very companionable.
February 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Beautiful stone alphabet.

(Not mine and, sorry, I've forgotten who made it.)
An array of pebbles laid out on the sand, each with markings that look like letters of the alphabet.
February 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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The late Norman Ackroyd, god of printing. 'Skelligs'
Monochrome print of the Skellig Islands, Ireland - dark jagged mountains sticking up into a stormy looking sky.
February 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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from the tomb of Kagemni

[photo: not mine]
from the tomb of Kagemni. Stone relief showing three birds, heads poking up out of a woven basket, looking around, the basket on a strap hanging on someone's elbow.
February 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Wosene Kosrof - The Colour of Words
Grid of letters, symbols and made up shapes, by Ethiopian painter Wosrene Kosrof
February 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Porcelain berries in Cambridge Botanical Garden
Porcelain berries - a vine with bunches of small berries - very shiny and of various colours, pink, mauve, shades of blue - speckled like birds eggs
February 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Now reading Nabokov's 'Pnin' ... wonderful writing, and funny ... you should read it if you haven't already ... you'll love it ...
Picture of the cover of the novel Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov.
February 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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The best novel I have read for ages, so brilliant and funny. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk.
Photo of the novel
January 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM