http://textualities.net Online Literary Magazine Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:03:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ROBERT BURNS To A Mouse On Turning Her Up In Her Nest, With The Plough, November 1785 Ad Murem Nidis Aratro Eversis from James Grahame Poems in English, Scotch, and Latin  Printed for the Author by J. Neilson Paisley 1794 The Burns industry in Scotland enjoyed a busy year in 2009, what with the Homecoming Festival, a three-day conference at Glasgow University, ... http://textualities.net/michael-lister/a-moose-loose-aboot-the-hoose/       ‘Don't expect too much,' Joanna urges. ‘It's what?  Thirty years?  It can't be the same.'    ‘I won't,' I say, but my excitement rises with every kilometre that takes us closer to the white house beneath the lemon tree.  *    I had been walking and hitching across Crete in late summer, ... http://textualities.net/keith-aitchison/yanniss-harbour/ How did the project begin? It all began with working on the Lyne Water in the Borders. One or two of the springs that feed into it have a lot of associated local folklore, which I realised ties into world folklore about wells and springs. I remember hanging over the edge ... http://textualities.net/jennie-renton/valerie-gillies-interview/ ‘Biodiplomat' Iain Orr, a former British Consul-General in Shanghai, shares his thoughts on diversity, islands and albatrosses. Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier times, and that the truth of the matter can only ... http://textualities.net/jennie-renton/interview-with-iain-orr/ This is the account given by a certain Curate Johnson of the village of Wywurth regarding an incident which was said to have occurred, during the late summer in the Year of Our Lord, 1881. The original manuscript was discovered in an empty bottle of porter found at low tide, ... http://textualities.net/suhayl-saadi/saelig-tales-part-3/ Rotherfield had been captured at Gallipoli and held in a Turkish jail full of Armenians, Greeks and Kurds (then known as Saracens). The absence of any other British prisoners struck had him as strange, and only later did he learn that he had been held apart from his countrymen deliberately. ... http://textualities.net/suhayl-saadi/saelig-tales-part-2/ Ivy stretched over the walls of the Old Manse, covering the front of the building and most of the sides. Only to the rear was the foliage sparse, revealing patches of dun brick and Tudor oak. The green wooden door that once had been the servants' entrance stood open. Occasionally ... http://textualities.net/suhayl-saadi/saelig-tales-part-1/ The second textualities.net Concise Ceilidh at Edinburgh's Main Point Books (location details) takes place this Sunday, 16th August, at 2pm, as part of the already legendary West Port Book Festival.  The festival is not to be missed if you are in Edinburgh.  All events are free and it is absolutely ... http://textualities.net/jennie-renton/west-port-book-festival/ "Kek!" said da bonxie, gaen efter a maa, an keppin da fish at da craetir let faa, "dir nae need ta wirk whin dir füles at'll do it, an aa you mann do is ta schaest till dey spew it!" "Oh, true, very true!" said da cuckoo, "livin is aesy, if you only ken hoo!" ... http://textualities.net/stella-sutherland/aesy-for-some/ Anthropology It was the year of tickets. We queued for seven hours in the rain to watch a sold-out autopsy. The operating theatre brimmed with the crunching music of munched toffee apples, whilst the surgeon removed a steam engine from the chest of a shivering blue corpse. Afterwards in a generous ... http://textualities.net/sam-meekings/the-secret-life-of-the-victorians/