Meaning: to be taught the Classics - Ancient Greek and Roman plays, Satires, poems, the languages, fashions, politics and history of that time ( Read more... )

Dad: Have you heard today that the Supreme Court...

Corvid: Oh! Yes, full US legal gay marriage - about bloody time!

Dad: Mm, yes... My only quibble is that I wish they’d use a different word.

Corvid: *neurons scowl* Why?

Dad: Well, because traditionally, marriage had been defined as between a man and a woman...

Corvid: *neurons scowl more ( Read more... )

For whoever is actually curious ( Read more... )

Well, I suppose there ought to be one post about it now it's all done ( Read more... )

This is a Corvidic faerytale; I've known the title of for ages but not the story...( Read more... )

...They stopped playing and ate a large patch of dandelions ( Read more... )

"I dreamed the world, with my eyes open.
But time moved on and then, new worlds begin again.
Oh my heart, in this universe so vast.
No moment was made to last, so light the fire in me..."Everyone is born with two ways of seeing: with science and with wonder ( Read more... )

Crossed Ladywell Fields today beneath a high sun and a low summer sky. People played football, minded children, chatted and pottered about. Nothing weird happened, there were no hallucinations. I think it probably says rather a lot about me that a neuron or two at the back were oddly disappointed. Still, mild disappointment probably better than ( Read more... )