In search of the real McCoy

“Always carry a flagon of whisky in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a small snake.” – W.C. Fields

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Pause for thought: Patrick Leigh Fermor

Pause for thought: George Steiner

Tickled under the circumstances

Farewell to a discombobulated old-timer.

Jonathan Swift: Where are you now?

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.

Moonstruck Eve and the lady librarian

Mark Twain delighted in logical absurdities, nowhere more so than in Eve’s Diary.

Time and tide wait for no one

“I must down to the seas again” wrote John Masefield in his poem “Sea Fever” first published in Salt-Water Ballads in 1902.