An English Country Churchyard

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

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Deeper Magic

“It means” said Aslan that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge only goes back to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, ino the stillness and the Darkness before time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation.”

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Fluid

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

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Alchemy

Alchemy is an ancient philosophical and protoscientific tradition that aimed to transform base metals into noble metals, such as gold, and to discover the elixir of life, a substance that was believed to grant eternal youth and immortality.

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In Memoriam

If it always Now, how can the past exist ? Or maybe better questions are what is memory and how true is memory ?

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An English Country Garden

How many gentle flowers grow in an English country garden?
I’ll tell you now, of some that I know, and those I miss I hope you’ll pardon.
Daffodils, hearts-ease and flocks, meadow sweet and lilies, stocks,
Gentle lupins and tall hollyhocks,
Roses, fox-gloves, snowdrops, forget-me-knots in an English country garden.

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Food For Thought

Carved dragons crouched gaping at the sky as Dirk Gently, in his flapping coat, approached the great iron portals which led to the hotel and to the great vaulted train shed of St Pancras station.

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Time Is The Currency

From the Overlook Hotel, much of what I am involved in is a subconscious journey down the neural pathways which mainly deals with Memory and Time.

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Renaissance

Another day, another unexpected journey.

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Abandoned Luncheonette

Our physical space is observed to have three large spatial dimensions and, along with time, is a boundless 4-dimensional continuum known as spacetime. However, nothing prevents a theory from including more than 4 dimensions.

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Tick Tock

‘Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.’

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The Bold Explorer

Even allowing for the fact ‘England’s Green and Pleasant Land’ is keen on its public footpaths, Nutfield has an extraordinary number of public footpaths. It is far bigger on the inside than it looks from the outside. Possibly an infinite number of footpaths.

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