Wednesday 29 December 2021

Leggende e Credenze delle Alpi Piemontesi by Enrico Bertone

 

Leggende e Credenze delle Alpi Piemontesi:
Storie di Demoni e di Santi, di Despoti e di Amanti, 
di Belve e di Spiriti

by Enrico Bertone

Sunday 15 August 2021

"The Leviathan" by Rosie Andrews

The Leviathan

by Rosie Andrews


She is awake. And I must remind myself of how it began. The end of all things. It was a time of witches, it was a time of saints, a time when rabbits hunted foxes, when children came into the world without their heards, and kings lost theirs on the scaffold. The world was turned upside down, or so some said… now, less than a hundred years after men and magic began to drift apart, we walk a new earth. We have become reasonable, and cleave to our certainties as once we cleaved to our kings. Now, the buried stories are dismissed as old wives’ tales, exaggerations, falsehoods. But still they bubble through the cracks, clinging on, refusing to go down into the dark. They develop strange qualities, words stored for too long. In the dim light of my small study, never bright enough now, I lay them down in honest black ink, but they are past their bloom…

Saturday 24 April 2021

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

by Benjamín Labatut

(Translated by Adrian Nathan West) 

A book review

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Walking with Bohr, Heisenberg had his first intuition of the radical otherness of the subatomic world. “If a mere particle of dust contains billions of atoms,” Bohr said to him as they were scaling the massifs of the Harz range, “what possible way is there to talk meaningfully of something so small?”  The physicist – like the poet – should not describe the facts of the world, but rather generate metaphors and mental connections. From that summer onwards, Heisenberg understood that to apply concepts of classical physics such as position, velocity and momentum to a subatomic particle was sheer madness. That aspect of nature required a completely new language.

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