Looming ships, turning tides, 3-degree seas, a 28-degree body temperature. Australian marathon swimmer Chloë McCardel has battled hell and high water to become Queen of the English Channel. And she’s not stopping there.
Jellyfish, sharks, ships: our greatest open-water swimmer’s horror days at the office
Human emotions point to a human mystery, and each human being is a profound mystery: the works I tend to respond to most keenly are those that confront me with that sense of mystery.
That Sense of Mystery' - visit a blog, Argumentative Old Git
“Give me a doctor partridge-plump,
Short in the leg and broad in the rump,
An endomorph with gentle hands
Who'll never make absurd demands
That I abandon all my vices
Nor pull a long face in a crisis,
But with a twinkle in his eye
Will tell me that I have to die.”
Do Birds Have Language? Smithsonian. Some would say yes.
'Art Is No Excuse for Boring People'
I Just Love Mid-Century-Modern Furniture: A Cautionary Tale
Articles of Note
The American library has — both literally and metaphorically — moved books to the basement. What is a library where books are secondary? Books 📚
New Books
To understand 21st-century male ennui, should we try to understand “the manosphere”? Perhaps Not
Essays & Opinions
Eros commits crimes of passion because, first and foremost an intellectual monster, Eros commits crimes of thought
Why Subsuming The Australia Council Is A Bad Idea
What Is It That Makes A Group Of Neighboring Venues Into An “Arts District”?
At SupChina Jin Zhao reports on how Danmei, a genre of Chinese erotic fiction, goes global -- with a trio of Mò Xiāng Tóng titles recently making The New York Times bestseller list.
I haven't seen any of these (and don't really see myself getting to them) -- but, hey, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System is certainly a ... catchy title; get your copy at Amazon.com, Bookshop.org or Amazon.co.uk.
See also the Seven Seas Mo Xiang Tong Xiu page.