Rather naughtily, Alfred Jarry once likened the Passion of Christ to an uphill bicycle race. The apostles presumably formed the peloton. The last gruelling weeks of the school year cry out for a like metaphor, writes Trevor Diogenes.
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Lowbottom High Diaries: The end school year is an uphill race
Lowbottom High Diaries: Vulnavia goes full frontal
‘But haven’t you got anyone closer to home, family say, who you can photograph?’ writes Trevor Diogenes.
Lowbottom High Diaries: Springtime dreaming
As the class attends to some task which produces that rare thing, silence, the ear attunes to the sounds of the body educative, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Stuff we like: superbugs and organic farming in India
Attention, not money, is the new currency. “Attention,” write Thomas Mandel and Gerard Van der Leun in their 1996 book Rules of the Net, “is the hard currency of cyberspace.” They’re dead on. As the Net becomes an increasingly strong presence in the overall economy, the flow of attention will not only anticipate the flow of […]
Telly watch: Gossip Girl is the future of television
Gossip Girl is perhaps the least demanding television drama in the history of the broadcasting. It didn’t rate that well in the States. And yet, it’s been picked up for another season. Why? Peter Mattessi investigates.
