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The End of the Line

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The Stop

The Bus launched on 7 April 2022 because I needed something to do. I’d been made redundant the previous December, and The Bus - with a twice-weekly publication schedule - quickly provided my amorphous...

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'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison'

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED (5.9) 13 May 2024

The Stop

Written in 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’ is a meditation on what he believed to be the very real power of the imagination. Wit...

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The Sublime

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED (5.11) 20 May 2024

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In the field of literary criticism, the term ‘sublime’ describes a quality of greatness - physical, moral, intellectual or artistic - that is beyond our normal...

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Absurdism

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED (4.50) 14 March 2024

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Absurdism is a philosophical thesis that maintains the universe is fundamentally irrational and meaningless. Though inspired by existentialism, absurdism ‘occ...

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Paracosms

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED (4.49) 11 March 2024

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Paracosms are complexly detailed imaginary worlds that some children develop in middle childhood.1 Usually complete with their own geography, history, culture...

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    An American expat living and teaching in England, varied interests fuel my days: early Jacobean theatre, Coleridge's poetry, Stoppard's plays, Nick Cave's second novel, working on a novel, listening to music ...

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