Friday 7 February 2025 Eskişehir, Türkiye The blank page is cold before the writer’s touch, a winter’s field before the kindling of thought. But then — ah, then! — the first spark, the strike of flint against stone, and a small ember glows in the mind’s cavern. A phrase, a character, a scene — it… Continue reading The fire and the pen
Tag: John Steinbeck
A man of letters
Eskişehir, Türkiye Wednesday 3 April 2024 “What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft, a kind of breaking through to glory.“ (John Steinbeck) Above: American writer John Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) “How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?“ (John Steinbeck, The… Continue reading A man of letters
Saints and monsters
It was with the greatest pleasure that I spent most of the first two days of December in my favourite European City, Freiburg im Breisgau, the “capital” of southwestern Germany´s Black Forest. I have in two previous posts briefly touched upon my last visit to Freiburg (Sign of the Times / Victims of the Machine)… Continue reading Saints and monsters