QUESTIONS PRESENT THEMSELVES

HISTORICALLY . . . .

Another dire adventure of Seamy Otticks, in which he barely escapes with his life. 

TRIVIA FOR A COLD MONDAY

More adventures of Seamy Otticks, in honour of Edmund Spenser.

BACK TO LEVITY

Here is the second in the "Adventures of Seamy Otticks" series.

FOR A CHEERFUL NEW YEAR

This is a new blog, because I am fed up with LiveJournal, its snail's-pace loading, uploading, and frequent downtimes. Those who remember the old one will recognize the slightly-altered title.

Amidst doom, gloom, rain and fog (in the South of France, yet), I thought I would put up a few cheery things of little consequence. Here is the first of a few cartoons I found when tidying up my study. I did them back in the Eighties, when I was writing a book on Elizabethan sonnet-sequences and reading a lot of French criticism and "theory". Anyone who went through that may recognize some old preoccupations.