I watched The Shawshank Redemption tonight. Not the first time I’ve seen it - and I had read the short story before the movie came out. Both are fine works. In the movie, Morgan Freeman’s character, ‘Red’, gives this little speech about how one of the other characters has …

I can’t remember where I heard this, but recently, I heard something that may seem obvious to most, but had totally escaped me. The reason we’re afraid of ghosts is that they’re lost souls, they’re all crazy because they’re trapped here - someplace they shouldn’t …

I built my self an Abbey of delusion content with angles, sharp and thick; a discharge of underground ink. I came upon a downcast flood of commercial recipes, dawning thanks to the fool who juggles an excess meal. We see the tender perspective of her ways, As the March hare, feeling thus: To rain …