‘I really like it. It looks beautiful, the colours are lush and it’s a refreshing perspective on the world. I love the idea of excellent dates engaging with Pliny’s figs and mushrooms, your thought provoking note on innocence, and the concept of the songs of men deep in the heart of grape buds’ – Nicki
Enduring friendship
The cool and collected Narziss finally tells his lifelong friend Goldmund how much he means to him. Goldmund wanders the world for years, the wilder of the two, and perhaps in some senses the less wise, eventually returning to his childhood home, and friend-mentor...
Firm friends
The blithe and luminous boy Goldmund arrives at the school which will be his home until he reaches adulthood, and feels reassured by two new friends. Of course, his real friendship comes later, but I liked that the trusting child sees a tree as a potential friend, as...
Nuannaarpoq Awards – Nominee 002
Our second nominee for a Nuannaarpoq Award is: Hoyle, a former British Consul in Rhodes Parameters: 20th century, British, real, human, male, now living elsewhere Nuannaarpoq qualities: authenticity, enchantment, innocence, imagination, resilience References: ...
Bursting the boundaries
A wonderful comment on life - you can come up with as many fine formulae as you like, it will sooner or later defy our clever definitions. Life...
Merry in the greenwood
Something blithe and enchanting about this description of the man she loves, before she realises that he loves her. He is resilient, upstanding,...
The breath of happiness
Ivan is a character, apparently based on Vasily Grossman's brother-in-law, who survived 30 years in a gulag before being released into 'normal'...
The thread of love (i)
This lovely metaphor for love is from a fine story of it by Mary Webb. I found this quotation around the same time as another by a quite different...
Nuannaarpoq Awards – Nominee 001
As you may be aware, we had the bright idea to present a few nuannaarpoqian characters as candidates for a Nuannaarpoq Award. Â Please...
The miracle of red water
Zorba, one of the world's great nuannaarpoqians, questions the soul-expanding miracle of wine. A key aspects of his vivid living is his constant...
A day in the woods
A moment when the two main characters of Bronte's less well known novel get to know each other. Shirley, newly arrived, proposes a day in the woods...
The meeting of winged friends
This description of a Chinese garden designed for the benefit of birds made me review our own. We have water baths, winter and summer (they need...
The magic of the sea shore
A subtle portrayal of the enduring enchantment of sea shores, whether through the richness of their treasures or their simple liminality. I like...
Freedom from alarms
One of the joys of leaving a job is the growing awareness that waking becomes a natural process, rather than an aural shock. This doesn't...
Down to the hare-bell sea
A blazingly limpid landscape on the island of Thera, plunging down to the sea, with flashes of passing birds and lizards over patterned stones and...
My kind of market
You may have noticed that I love basket-bursting, banquet-spread descriptions of food. However, while meals can be sumptuously presented, market...
The timelessness of Troy
Golding took thirty years to complete his own odyssey from Troy to Ithaka, with war and other events intervening between his first attempt, in which...
What are decades to dreams?
Golding, sailing past the island of Ithaka, thought he would return and land within a few months. Then war and life intervened, and it took him...
Simple pleasures for ever
It is unbelievable how good bread and cheese can taste, washed down with some form of liquid amber, when you are on a terrace over a blue chasm, or...
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