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Pointer
The indicating finger and the tail of the scorpion are remarkably similar.
Resignation and Futility
Innumerate Triolet
My Place in The Sun
Health, Climate and the Covert Hand
Sex as Social Glue
Rhythmic Utterance and Mate Choice
Who is to blame for the Industrial Revolution?
Survivals
Learning to Listen
Inward and Outward Looking
Sweet Time
Out of the Blue
Moral Fibre
Very Knowing
Satisfaction
The Serpent's Tooth
A. P. Rossiter (1903–1957): A Biographical Note and a Checklist of Works
Letter to Commander H.
Do as I say, not...
Nothing beside...
Stowaway
Eyes left, Form a Tortoise!
Crime Scene
Likeness
At the bottom of the garden...
Si vis...
Head On...
Something to Say
Revised Account of the Oxford English Texts to 1939
For Sure... or Against?
Green Gollums
Suggested Reading
A Backward Glance...
The Origin and Destination of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Plate Tectonics
Forming a View
Economy
Redemption
First Sight
First Contact
Transparency
Reconfiguration
Under the Skin
Immusical Opinions
Truly, truly great
Negátive Capability
As it Is!
Trouvé
The Mirror of Nature
In Medias Res
Fish In and Out of Water
Mr Punch Contemplates his End
..., perhaps
Clean
False Promise
Repurposing
Dragon and Dragonfly
Gradus
Anti Social
Beyond, and back again
Sunlight and Civilisation
Rough, tumble, and consequence
Set in Stone
Lazy Bones
Multum in Parvo
Pretty Plans
Transgender Castrati
Jackanory
Call of the Wild
Strip the Altars!
Why are the rich so gullible...
Sentiment and Significance
Names and Clues
Textually Obsolete
When Editions Go Wrong
The Oxford English Texts 1940 to the present day
Lovelock's Latest
A Note on the Oxford English Texts Series up to 1939
Science, Scholarship and Institutional Systems
Truth will Not Out
A Respectful Silence
Two Types of Poetry
Prayer
Love Actually
Wyndham Lewis & his Readers
Up & Down, and All Around
Unlucky Stars
Energy and Substance
Wit and Insight
Timor Mortis Conturbat...?
Larkin's Enormous Appeal
Words and Deeds
Processed Literature
Do as I do...
Silence!
Shakespeare & Bacon
Bernard Mandeville the Devil Man
Copy Text
Self and Family
Division of Labour
Five Observations
Bullying
Intelligent Design
Beyond Civilisation
On Your Own
Of the Propriety of Intoxicants
Taking Aim
Playing Fair
Characteristics
Pointer
Saving Grace
Art with a capital A
Giving
The pursuit of happiness and other thoughts
Models of Man
Wyndham Lewis: Strategy and Tactics
Types of Readers and Writers
Thoughts on Eagleton
By popular demand...
Does public discourse matter?
Upstairs, Downstairs
Early one morning...
One liners
Self-indulgence and the Pledge
A Note on De la Mare
Simple recipe
Leaders and Readers
Launched
Guilt
The Bright Side
Action Stations!
Savings
Sleep well
Old and Foolish
Who's Who
Lingo
Commandments and Resolutions
Blood, again
Evening
Hygiene
Beyond!
"Words no good!"
To Effluvia: On her laughing at the handkerchief verses
01.02.87
Muscle
Sheep and Goats
Innoculation
Growth, Status, Contract
The Engine of History
The One...
The Dignity of State
All his Cry...
Making the Most of It
Definition
Interpreting the Signs
Three Ways
Vital Statistics
Population Thinking and Intellectual History
The hand that we have been dealt
When there's a War On
Excluded Middle
Them and Us...
A Change of Heart
Easy come, Easy go?
Reference Points
Rising and Surviving
The way I read it is this...
Knowledge and Decision
Horrible Historians
The Study of Literature in a time of Science
Tossers
The Great Phoenix
Awesome
Good Heavens
Sick
Historical Visions
The world as some see it...
Ha, ha, ha
Energy and Wealth
Setbacks
The Meaning of Majorities
Residual
Metrical Structures
Difficult to imagine
Two (or Three) Voices
Slow Progress
Two Poets
Looking Back
Consequences
One word
Diagnosis
Rescue!
This is the way...
There are two cultures, one is of the deep...
Peter Singer's Ethics
The Gutter
Composite Materials
Quibbling
Saved!
Self Confidence
False pretences
Why go somewhere?
Green Shoots
Silent Recyclers
From the Streets
The Kingdom of Heaven
Easter Message
Duty
Chameleon Man
The Tragedy of Gravity
Best Friends
On reflection, let's keep it as it is
Listening In
Palpable Fiction
Ancestral voices
Looking Down
Feeding on the Will to Live
Stepping back
Autarky
Close...
Advert and Serve
The drift of our lives
Family Around You
Hiding and Driving
The opinion of betters
What we get from science
Shared endeavour?
Hell!
Inside Outside
Property, property, property..
Mental Arithmetic
Experiment
Getting There
Money as an Indestructible Fluid
Beyond anyone's grasp
Forked Tongue
Seed Crystals
A Dynamic History of Verse Form in English
The Administration of Justice
What are we up to?
Acid
Professor
Two Items from the Duck River Anthology
In two minds
Forgive them...
Degrees of Freedom
Buying Blind
Getting On
Essay in Criticism
Dog, Woman, Vacuum
Black Thoughts
Valleys are Fluctuations
Ego and its Owned
Apt to Burn
Direction of Travel
Election Reflections
Snapshot of a Gyroscope
From the ashes of disaster...
Waking Beauty
Independent Means
Bad People
Sphex
Power to the People (in Power)
Going round and round
Under which flag?
Whose Debt?
Everything is on fire
Thinking for You
Two Errors of Liberalism
Two Tribes
One of life's little problems
Putting Bread Upon the Table
The Long and the Short of It
Seminar Notes
What Theory Leaves Behind
Keeping it Together
Cui bono?
Anger Management
Under-exercised Judgement
Playing Together
Sorry...
Taking the temperature...
The Doom of Clio
The Sin Against Genius
Wyndham Lewis
More or less true
Foresight
Rum Punch
Book Learning
Presenting History
Revolution Principles
The goodness of our hearts
Doing the Business
There is no such 'thing' as the State...
The Romance of the Firm
A New Age?
The Great Fish...
What's Wrong with Ella Wheeler Wilcox?
Short Talk
Give and Take
The incredible shrinking god
The Family
Europe, Endless
All together now...
Wyndham Lewis' Doom of Youth
Between the Valley and the Mountains
Refusing to Decorate
Another Man's Childhood Memory
Mood Music of Ourselves
Don't bottle it all up...
A Rose by Any Other Integer...
Why Campus Novels Make 'Us' Laugh
A Solicitor Executes a Will
The Beauty of a Total Policy
Neko tsuri
The Voice of Command
Weeping, and gnashing of teeth
Cause and Effect
The Company of Clio
Among thieves
Any Morning's Philosophy
All the Olds that's Fit to Print
Certainty and Scalpel
... on the Sea
Observation at a high window in the University of Laputa
Cultural Viscosity
The Raw, the Cooked, and the Freeze-dried
Nightpiece
The Doctrine & Institution of Religion
Paternoster
Reunion
The Ties that Bind
Simple Minds
Juvenilia
Drawing and Talking
Don't Play On!
Giving yourself Away
Marking the Past
Invidious Comparisons
Selected Books and Articles
John Constable