Historically-Minded Immortals June 25, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
Imagine if you will a man or woman who has lived not three score years and ten, but three score centuries and ten. They have rutted, defecated, masticated there way through the generations, watching the changing nuances of human idiocy, the misleading crab walk of technology and the intolerable brightness of every new young generation […]
The Immortal Major Fraser August 4, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
OK here is an atmospheric little passage from a nineteenth-century description of the fifth most beautiful city in the world. Major Fraser, though he never dined there, spent an hour or two daily in the Estaminet du Divan [in Paris] to read the papers. He was a great favorite with every one, though none of […]
