“‘Haemanthus coccineus.’ He would then glance down to where I hovered my elbow and say, ‘To you, the blood lily.’” — Eric Schaller, from ‘The Assistant to Dr Jacob’ first published in NEMONYMOUS 2 …

“‘My being fought between the utter destruction of beauty beyond imagining and the utter inability of the flesh to be destructed.’ (Although some scholars believe an articulate scribe cleaned up an…

Dear 1990 Brainwright, As swansongs in my old age of reading, I have now decided to read, in tandem, KIM by Rudyard Kipling (for the first time) and THE GLAMOUR by Christopher Priest (for the secon…

Dear 1990 Brainwright, I very recently took this photo inside Colchester Castle Museum without reading what it was all about. Can you shed any light on it? ============= Yes — and your photograph i…