culture. education. literary studies.
From the provincial setting and character depictions, to insights into the spiritualist subculture peppered with Mantelโs skillful wit... Everything about this book was enjoyable. Add to that a rather unconventional and original approach to its themes, and you have a recipe for a great, genre-bending novel.
Clareโs short poem โSummer Moodsโ wonderfully captures the sense of enjoyment in a simple nature walk on a summer evening.
For many years now โZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanceโ has been one of my favourite books. If youโre not familiar with it, I hope this post and the listening tips will encourage you to explore Pirsigโs writings and philosophy.
In this post, Iโll give a few examples of an unusual feature where a particular Latin verb form (typically that of the 3rd person singular) has been adopted into English as a noun. Most of these nouns are very common and you might not even be aware of their origin!
grammaticus 