cain’s jawbone
In a Radio New Zealand radio interview in early December last year I listened with increasing interest and growing excitement to Jesse Mulligan speaking with UK-based Kiwi publisher John Mitchinson. He is the co-founder of Unbound Publishing. In 2019 this crowdfunding publishing house rediscovered and republished Cain’s Jawbone, a complex literary puzzle originally published in…
languageless
Reading A man without words by Susan Schaller introduced me to the concept of languageless. This refers to a person, who is born deaf or loses their hearing shortly after birth, having absolutely no idea or concept of language, that language has something to do with words, with speaking and communicating, that words carry meaning,…
library
“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a…
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the wonder of language 