2017-08-23 09:14
I just wanted to signpost a change of direction for this blog.
The blog will now focus on virtual worlds, and some of the interesting insights, peculiarities and problems they churn up. I ha… Read More
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A blog about labyrinths and mazes in society and culture (namely literature, films, video games and art)
2017-08-20 22:48
La Cabina is a Spanish horror short which was aired on television in 1972. You can find it on You Tube with English subtitles and I will paste a link at the end of this article. I suggest yo… Read More
2017-03-18 20:50
Ran emerges into a green cathedral whose foundations are ingloriously sunk in a rank swampland. The green light is like a bilious cloud and through it dart every sort of flying insect… Read More
2017-03-18 19:43
Walking a labyrinth is very similar to meditation. You clear you mind and try to think of nothing except each step towards the centre. If you do it with a friend, one can lead the other and… Read More
2017-03-05 17:39
The earth scooped-out and bare-boned. A changeless backdrop of black sands under a pink-flecked fugue of sky. Bellows of heaven and earth pressing together and heaving great lungfuls across… Read More
2017-03-04 11:20
PLEASE NOTE: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS
Cube Farms
I want to talk about the postmodern maze as a gradual evolution of the labyrinth as both a metaphor and a physical structur… Read More
2017-02-18 12:04
Clark Aston Smith is a largely forgotten fantasy writer who, along with H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (author of Conan the Barbarian), were the major contributors to the influenti… Read More
2017-02-12 20:12
Gene Wolfe, an American science fiction and fantasy author, who is also linked to inventing the frying process that makes Pringles, and whose writing is strongly flavoured by his C… Read More
2017-02-05 20:28
You wake. Not
by opening your eyes:
they were already open. A
whiteness of light curls
around both rims and
tears well
up, stinging more. You make it go dark
with your hands because both eye… Read More
2017-01-29 23:23
The Burrow (1931) and Dark Days (2000)
Kafka’s unfinished short story puts us into the first person document of a paranoid mole-man who has, against the odds, cons… Read More
2017-01-22 09:54
I have posted a short story I wrote about eight years ago. It is from a particular place and time in my life, and the beginning, a cycle ride home at night, was a ride I made every… Read More
2017-01-14 13:59
The ending of Stanley Kubrick’s only horror film features a conceit not featured in the book: a chase through a snowy hedge maze at night. It is an iconic piece of cinema, merging clau… Read More
2017-01-07 12:38
My new blog about labyrinths, mazes, mirrors, time and space, doubles and the second person –in literature, films, art and video games.
I will cover symbolism and meaning using a littl… Read More
2017-01-07 12:29
What is the difference between a labyrinth and maze?
First off, you are sure to have seen both types without necessarily being aware they are cordoned off linguistically. In modern culture t… Read More
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