why we should

down to the sky, up to the pool… —and Colin Wilson I was cataloguing Colin Wilson’s memoir The Angry Years, and I thought, who is he again? Colin Wilson is one of those boomer generational figures who have had little impact on my on cohort of genXers. His books would have passed my gaze in second hand book shops, in…

Mapping Christian byways of worldbuilding by way of a flowchart. an aside The usage of terms like “worldbuilding” here is the reason this writing has been written, i.e. I hope I can more fully explore and explain what wworlding is, as a substitute for a lot of 'things' that are outcomes of the moral/worlding urge, but we treat as causal,…

The re-post below this introduction, was originally posted as The fable that is modern literature in 2021. It describes an experience from a decade before at Parables of Submission, Fables of Truth-Based Creativity. Reposted here because it relates to literature and thus to world-building, and thus worlding and morality more generally. Basically literature is always fantasy where it prefers non-flat…

There is this wonderful book written by Lorraine Daston called Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures. Princeton ; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780691156989). I say wonderful because it is one of those histories which illuminates by way of the taphonomy of etymology, of usage in their historical contexts, rather than, say, a list…

This last week I woke up at about 4am and actually got up out of bed, to write in my notebook, some questions that follow from Newtonian space-time metaphors. I mention this getting up to write down, because it was quite complex sleep thinking, and usually when I think at 4am I tend to remain asleep. My waking hours when…

Today I am having: Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach. Continuum, 2009 by Mark Dooley. 978-1-84706-013-6 In a first reading this book, it occurred to me, I might be becoming a gap-hunter, or, better, as in more accurate, I might become a hunter of what people throw in the gap. There is always a gap, so why hunt that?…