L'esprit de l'escalier
Dolan CummingsEssays looking behind and beyond the long shadow of the 20th century
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The Sacred Virgin and the Spurned Bride
Read the first chapter of my brand new novella, The Sacred Virgin and the Spurned Bride, now available from Amazon. (Normal, non-fictional service will resume next month.)
Chapter 1. Childbirth
Freia howled with pain.
‘That’s right,’...
Did you know…?
Facts are funny things. They protest too much about their reliability. The things we know with most confidence do not announce themselves as such. They are woven into the fabric of our learning and experience. Those things we learn as facts...
Disenchantment and the Devil
Sometimes, when I’m walking in the countryside, I like to imagine away all traces of the modern world. Roads, pylons, buildings. Other people in fluorescent Gore-Tex and their insufficiently feral dogs. I like to imagine I am wandering thro...
Prometheus and providence
According to the myth of Prometheus, the Titan stole fire from the gods and gave it to men. For this, he was punished by being chained to a rock and having his liver eaten by an eagle, only for it to grow back to be eaten again and again. M...
Are we there yet?
Much was made last year of Keir Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech. The prime minister was widely accused of channelling Enoch Powell. And leaving aside the political dimension, which I discussed in an earlier essay, this was true at th...
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Dolan Cummings writes untimely essays and uncalled-for fiction. His latest novella is The Sacred Virgin and the Spurned Bride. His previous novels are The Pictish Princess, Gehenna: a novel of Hell and Earth and That Existential Leap: a crime story.
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