Things Of Interest, Interesting Things.

Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist and The Pickwick Papers when he was 24.

He wrote Oliver Twist in the mornings. And the Pickwick Papers in the evenings (or perhaps it was the other way round.)


I saw a young guy at Cabramatta library who had sleeve tattoo that would have been awesome...if it had been done by a better tattoo artist.


When Jacques Derrida went to the Far East, the scholars said to him: "Deconstruction, you say? We've doing that for centuries".


Standing outside Cabramatta Woolworths, a woman who looks to be in her mid to late 60s. The day is hot.
She wears dark blue shorts and singlet. She is covered in old, faded, amateurish looking, 'prison' type tattoos. She looks serene. She would have gotten those tattoos when the world was a different place -during the first wave of feminism. She'd be a great guest for that old TV show 'Front Up'.


I recently hear that it is an African tradition to reject dualism and embrace contradiction.


Back in the '90s, I knew a woman who had an elaborate back tattoo. From shoulder blades to backside. Her friend (a woman) was a talented tattoo artist. She told her friend to "grab your tat gun and doodle whatever you want on my back."  So much confidence. So much trust.

The end result looked like a magnificent doodle done on notepad while the artist was talked on the phone.
I guess her back was a flesh notepad and they (the friends) probably did chat while the tat was being done.


Immanuel Kant was 57 when The Critique of Pure Reason was published.


I listen to an interview with the Australian poet Les Murray. He spoke of how traditional Australian Aboriginal poetry is part of an oral tradition. And that can't hear most of it unless you've been initiated.


Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s  utopian  novella, 'Herland' was published in 1915 when she was 55.


“Please, sir, I want some more.”