Unfortunately I, like most humans, continually find myself comparing myself, perhaps we do so because of the distinctive features of that animal we are, to a human animal only. However much the academy still sneers at the reductive in internet resourced explanations, these have a certain economy, though no doubt perhaps an economy of the … More Unfortunately I, like most humans, continually find myself comparing myself, perhaps we do so because of the distinctive features of that animal we are, to a human animal only.

I think finding yourself (when ‘it’ is lost) may be an irrelevance because it pretends that there is an undying continuous self or identity. This is a blog triggered by Jose Ando (trans by Kalau Almony 2026), ‘Jackson Alone’, London, Footnote Press. Novelist Jose Ando receives the Akutagawa Prize at an award ceremony held on … More I think finding yourself (when ‘it’ is lost) may be an irrelevance because it pretends that there is an undying continuous self or identity. This is a blog triggered by Jose Ando (trans by Kalau Almony 2026), ‘Jackson Alone’, London, Footnote Press.

I wonder what a world would be like where there was no concept of reading. I won’t even tread into the world of ‘writing’ for I am no writer and have no right therefore to write or speak of it’s effects for good or ill, at least as far as I am concerned. But read … More There can be no substitute for healthy growth through the actions demanded by literacy: ‘reading’ and ‘writing’.