Category: Rants and Rambles

Rants and Rambles: The Muses

Rants and Rambles: The Muses

Sing to me, oh muse, and let thine inspiration run true.    Is that how the Odyssey starts? Well it all depends on which translation you’ve read. I’ve just paraphrased several translations of the opening stanza and stuck them together to create a point. The Greek writers, when reciting their work to a crowd, would …

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Rants and Rambles: Who was the real Shakespeare?

Rants and Rambles: Who was the real Shakespeare?

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing your best to stay healthy during these trying times. It is currently week five of the UK quarantine. The death-toll from the Coronavirus in the UK has surpassed 18,000 people and globally over two million people have been infected. I don’t wish to make light of the …

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Coronavirus Update

Coronavirus Update

2020 is going well so far, isn’t it? World War Three was threatened at the start of the year, most of Australia was on fire and now the Coronavirus… Hello everyone, I hope you are keeping well in these difficult times. As you are no doubt aware, the world is currently in the middle of a …

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