https://livesteven.com/2026/10/02/the-most-underrated-skill-is-that-which-creates-poly-mytho-factive-worlds-using-the-skills-of-curation-collage-and-sometimes-the-best-of-scholarship-a-first-blog-on-the-joy-of-beginning-to-read-ed/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-10-02T14:39:52+00:00The most underrated skill is that which creates poly-mytho-factive worlds using the skills of curation, collage and, sometimes, the best of scholarship. A first blog on the joy of beginning to read Edith Hall, ‘Medea: A Life’, taking as an example Medea’s plea to help from her goddess-mother, Eidyia.dailyprompt, writing, books, book-review, fiction, mythology, durham-book-festival-2026, dailyprompt-2906, edith-hall, medea-a-lifehttps://livesteven.com/2026/10/01/how-can-a-drama-about-men-and-their-relation-to-work-take-on-and-does-it-need-to-the-belief-of-its-central-character-that-a-man-who-is-not-married-is-living-an-unnatural-life-1-s/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-10-01T13:23:05+00:00How can a drama about men and their relation to work take on, and does it need to, the belief of its central character that a ‘man who is not married is living an unnatural life.’[1] Some personal, and otherwise, reflection on reading Robert Tressell before seeing the Ensemble ’84 production of ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’: Part Two, being on homosocial groups and heterosexual marriage.dailyprompt, book-review, fiction, dailyprompt-2902, ragged-troused-philanthropists, robert-tressell, sex-gendersexuality-and-norms