The Triumph of the Feckless
“People, Places, Things,” is a mantra an old companion and friend of my youth enjoys repeating whenever some impetuous member of our circle begins talking about ways in which the world could be improved for the better. He refers, naturally, to those res which one is personally incapable of effecting. It is a good slogan,...
Oxford: Dreams Inspired
-John Henry dips a toe into the warm waters of the Isis and Cherwell I once found, whilst strolling in Christchurch Meadow, a scrap of cardboard about the size of a playing card, lying discarded upon the gravel. On one side had been drawn in pencil a caricature of an unshaven man in a ducal...
