Operation Pied Piper

Personal Update. And Breaking News

My Wittgenstein project has entered a fallow phase but it is merely on furlough for a while and will be…

1 year ago

Evacuee Story Lines #3 Evelyn Waugh

I did, in the first weeks of the war, before I got my commission, suffer severely from 'evacuees'.- Evelyn Waugh in…

3 years ago

Evacuee Story Lines #2 C. S. Lewis

"What are you doing in the wardrobe?" "Narnia business" C.S."Jack" Lewis spent childhood years in a house in Belfast where…

3 years ago

Evacuee Story Lines #1 Nina Bawden

All our stories begin before we are born. Not Just the blue eyes or flat feet we inherit, but the…

3 years ago

The Thinking

This post is in answer to the question "Operation Pied Piper: What were they thinking?" At least in terms of…

4 years ago

Operation Pied Piper: What were they thinking?

In Hamelin in Lower Saxony. there's an inscription on a wooden beam on the side of the Rattenfangerhaus (rat catcher's…

4 years ago

Saplings

I'm not giving anything away by quoting the deep irony of the last lines of Saplings: Turns you over, don’t…

7 years ago