Aug
7th
Sat
7th
"What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "To smoke," he [Holmes] answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
Jul
2nd
Fri
2nd
Alberto del Hierro, Salou’s Councillor for Tourism, said: ‘It is not normal to go the market with your packet on show or round the tourist sites in a thong.
May
30th
Sun
30th
It seems remedial now, and it is, but it’s something Dickens seemed to realize long ago: Travel is not that interesting. People are. Stories come alive only when there are people in them. Travel and nature writing both purport to be about physical things. But they are really about us, and to the extent that they aren’t, they are simply bad, or boring, writing.
May
23rd
Sun
23rd
There is no perfection, only varying tastes in corruption.
