I have been afflicted with a change-of-season lethargy, which might be akin to what Mr. Lightfoot refers to as the collywobbles. I pack most of my teaching and consulting or whatever you want to call it into as little of the week as possible – Tuesday evening to Saturday lunchtime. [Read more…]
The word “turbulent” occurs only three times in Shakespeare, once in Timon of Athens, once in Pericles, and once in Hamlet, when Claudius asks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, And can you by no drift of circumstance Get from him why he puts on this confusion, Grating so harshly all his days [Read more…]
Having not shown his face inside a mahjong parlour for about three months, David returned to the fray tonight and managed to finish top dog for the evening. Mind you, it was not without some fortuitious eventualities… If his evening may be compared to taking a shot on the 13th [Read more…]
“Madness, good, bad, or merely medical, underlies a great deal of Renaissance thought, worship, morals, literature and humour… Aristotle believed that many madmen, and all geniuses, were melancholic, an assertion he explained with the help of Plato: he took the inspiration of the true genius to be one of the [Read more…]
In Affectionate Remembrance, of Gaijin Mahjong which died at Kodama, On 2nd May, 2008 Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing Friends and acquaintances. RIP NB – the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Noda’s house. The fat lady has now retired. If it was over [Read more…]
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