'I began to wonder whether, like one of Kaufman’s ... characters, I had in fact always been reading Charlie Kaufman’s Antkind; if my reading of Charlie Kaufman’s Antkind was in some strange fashion coextensive with my experience of life itself.'

http://ow.ly/TegP50B0d1p

'The relish with which we made for beaches, hills and dales as soon as the most stringent restrictions were lifted suggests a widespread craving for contact with the natural world not met by a brief turn around the local park.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/those-dark-satanic-hills

Perception is a weird thing. Lawrence Durrell saw Hydra as a ‘great horned toad’ but Henry Miller thought it resembled a ‘huge loaf of petrified bread’. Niko Ghika painted it as a series of neat white and orange squares.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-call-of-the-wine-dark-sea