Posts filed under “humour”.
A Bumper Sticker
Stolen from Fred Reed’s Site.
Falling off a cliff
John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, was speaking at York University the other night.
He told the following story:
A man out walking by the coast fell off a cliff. On the way down, after a couple of hundred feet a shrub or tree broke his fall. He managed to grab a branch, and there he was, [...]
Vonnegut to Willeford
However, please count me among your great admirers. You are an absolute first-rate ethnographer in describing survival schemes within chaos which only politicians would be cynical enough to call a society. You have written an important book, and must know it
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita was finished in its present form by the middle of 1938. The author died in 1940 and the novel was effectively suppressed until 1973.
It is a strange, surreal novel, heavily influenced by Gogol, which traces the events let loose when the Devil himself alights on Moscow.
The Sins of Father Knox
Ronald A. Knox (1888-1957) was a British clergyman and detective story writer. In 1929 he issued the following “ten rules” that guided detective fiction in its so-called Golden Age:
1. The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to [...]
