Posts tagged ‘liturgy’

Khanya Blog

• The Singularity and children’s literature 17 October 2019
  I was looking at the question and answer web site Quora, and came across a question: What is the most horrible children’s book ever written? My answer, without hesitation, was Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories. My cousins, who were staying with us when I was about 8 or 9 years old, had a copy of it, […]
• On writing: conflict and goals in fiction 7 October 2019
  For the last few weeks we’ve been going to a writer’s support group that discusses writing fiction, We read each other’s writing and comment on it. The most recent discussion was on writing about conflict. In most fiction, there is some kind of conflict, and this is what keeps the plot moving. I’m not writing […]
• Strangers in a fourth mansion 4 October 2019
  Our Neoinklings literary coffee klatsch this morning was the first since the death of Tony McGregor, one of our regular members. I had first met Tony in the 1960s, when we were both students, at a conference of the Anglican Students Federation (ASF) at Modderpoort in the Free State. Tony grew up in the Eastern […]
• Black rain over Hiroshima 21 September 2019
  Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse My rating: 5 of 5 stars A novel that tells how one family coped with the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. Shigematsu Sizuma, as guardian of his niece Yasuko, is concerned that rumours that she suffered from radiation sickness might harm her prospects of marriage. He decides to transcribe […]
• Witchcraft, witches and wizards FAQ 14 September 2019
  On Question-and-Answer web sites like Quora I see so many questions about witches, wizards and witchcraft that I think one could classify them as Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), and to save a lot of typing I thought I’d write a kind of generic answer here, and simply provide a link to it. For example, when […]