David Jones's Blog, page 1406

Bonaparte Before the Sphinx, (ca. 1868) by Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Bonaparte Before the Sphinx, (ca. 1868) by Jean-Léon Gérôme.

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"Once more, for the final time, he contemplated flight, desired nothing more than to turn back, but..."

"Once more, for the final time, he contemplated flight, desired nothing more than to turn back, but it was only an empty world, bleak, desolate, and the face of the conjurer would stare critically down upon his every movement."

- The Travelling Circus of Lacrimosa, Act IV Scene I.

Listening to Cats in the Cradle..

Listening to Cats in the Cradle..

Sunday: the perfect day for cute animal pictures.

Sunday: the perfect day for cute animal pictures.

Haiku on Dreams

I created life

With this dream of the future -

To dare is to live.

All of this made perfect sense/I never questioned it until...

All of this made perfect sense/I never questioned it until now…

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I miss the days when everyone used MSN Messenger.

Marketting Tip...

Not so much a tip (in fact, not a tip at all) but an observation about the marketing of novels. I've just been reading a blog written by an author who claims they are a terrible writer, and to reinforce this point, cheerfully quotes all the reviews which share this view, and variously desecrate every novel they have ever written. This got my attention not least because it was written in a highly comical and cheerful (not to mention slightly proud..) way, but the blog was using the terrible...