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It was this blog, of course! It is on Peter Jefferies & Gregory Jusdanis ‘Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy’.

December 20, 2025

It was this blog, of course! How to write on a life, whose archival raw material is ‘marked by two conspicuous gaps – the relative absence of material regarding Constantine’s erotic life and his views of Muslim Egyptians’.[1] This is a blog on Peter Jefferies & Gregory Jusdanis Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine … More It was this blog, of course! It is on Peter Jefferies & Gregory Jusdanis ‘Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy’.

If fun were an exam subject I would have failed! Lol.

December 12, 2023

Fun is a word I use rarely. I sometimes, I hesitate to add, wince when other people use it. Play is a different thing because play always leans into a task and makes it something that human beings feel to be ‘real’, a space, set of circumstances and other characters in which they feel an … More If fun were an exam subject I would have failed! Lol.