A story about "Mr Norris Changes Trains" — 4 years ago
Peripheral perspectives of the rise of Nazi Germany, and of the slightly amateurish shadowiness of Mr Norris.
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A story about "Pigs Can Fly" — 4 years ago
Overlapping mish-mash of jokes and anecdotes, of comedians who he’s worked with, of all the people who’ve suspiciously dropped dead a day or two before he was meant to work with them. Good funny and bad funny, with enough attention deficit to keep it readable.
A story about "The Life of the Ant" — 4 years ago
Christmas present from Holly; magnificent small-hardback 40s edition. Maeterlinck hovers brilliantly between demolishing earlier theories of ant behaviour and being in anthropomorphic, mystified awe, but the vivid descriptions clearly all lend themselves to simple emergence, in retrospect. Beautifully written.
A story about "Weighing the Soul : Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre" — 4 years ago
Rambling stories of contested scientific discoveries, of their contexts and legacies, tied loosely together with a theme of childhood intuition. Fairly casually written, which gets across some of the enthusiasm Fisher gives on radio, but a bit too loose and pop-sci. (Although the sprawling endnotes of greater scientific detail make good, solid reading.)
A story about "The Man Who Knew Too Much" — 4 years ago
Typically elegant Chestertonian murder-mysteries, solved by a know-it-all dilettante on the fringes of high-powered society.
