Twelve Mile Creek is, more accurately, a river. On this bright morning it flows quickly over steep drops and under fallen trees along the valley floor. The Mt Crichton walking track starts on the left side of the valley and soon gains altitude leaving the river behind in at the base of the valley. A …
Chapter IV - The Sunny Colossus from Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953) by Lawrence Durrell. In this chapter Durrell tells the story leading to the creation of the Colossus of Rhodes in 280 BC. I’ve printed his written word verbatim and added images to accompany the story.
No companion to …
Simple rules can generate complex behaviour. I’m reading A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram. A key idea of the book is that a simple …
For how long now have we not nibbled
At the immediate past in this fashion, words,
Regretting our ignoble faculty of failing,
Slipping between whose fingers?
Melting between whose lips?
The disabused ruins of history’s many
Many costumes we discarded.
The little shop has been pulled down
Where …
The Main Trunk line is a railway running through the middle of the North Island connecting Wellington and Auckland. It was finished in 1908 and became the preferred way to travel between the two cities. Car and aircraft have since superseded rail for personal travel, but the Main Trunk is still used …
