Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Heroes and Heroism

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Music

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Travel and Tourism

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.