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• The Three Sluggards

  The king of a country a long way off had three sons. He liked one as well as another, and did not know which to leave his kingdom to after his death: so when he was dying he called them all to him, and said, ‘dear children, the laziest sluggard of the three shall be [...]

  25 February 2009 | 2 Comments | Read More

• The Unfeasability Study

  I salvaged this from a book about to be burned. It was to be burned because it was (among other books) blamed for the collapse of a marriage. I found an unspeakable aptness in this paragraph, given the context. I intend to integrate it into the contractual agreement when I initiate my next relationship. I [...]

  17 February 2009 | 1 Comment | Read More

• Thus, my dear and civilised reader,

  if you and I were to find ourselves this evening in the society of greengrocers, let us say, it is probable that our conversation would not be brilliant; if, on the other hand, a greengrocer should find himself at your refined and polite tea-table, where everybody was saying witty things, and everybody of fashion and [...]

  15 February 2009 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• The Penny

  And do not let my reader exclaim against this selfishness as unnatural. It was but this present morning, as he rode on the omnibus from Richmond; while it changed horses, this present chronicler, being on the roof, marked three little children playing in a puddle below, very dirty, and friendly, and happy. To these three [...]

  3 January 2009 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• But Oh, Mesdames,

  if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably.
  - Vanity Fair, Ch.XII p.131

  13 December 2008 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• Interrobang!

  Published in Notion Magazine (issue 36) – an article on magazine typography… I recommend you look at magCulture for more stuff about magazine design…

  Forgive my ruthless universalising: when it comes to a word, you can speak it or you can write it. But every time a word is used, it is subject to an infinity [...]

  25 November 2008 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• Wet Letters

  This happened a while ago, when there was a mystery mini-flood in the offices downstairs. It’s one of my favourite inanimate things to look at right now. I love the strong, hard-edged letterforms and their swirling, organic dissolution, I love the yellowy echoing after-image. I love the contrasts and the sentiment. I love ‘MANY THANKS’ [...]

  11 July 2008 | 1 Comment | Read More