My neighbour, Gladys Throatsweet, is currently in dispute with the local council as she has thirteen brown bins for garden waste and is refusing to give up any of them. The council insists that her council tax entitles her to the use of just one of these brown bins and that her hoarding of thirteenContinue reading “The Brown Bin Affair – A Treatise on the Questionable Historical Significance of Thirteen Brown Bins”
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‘One Step Beyond’ – A Treatise on Obscure Afterlife Beliefs from Around the World
The Theravada form of Buddhism practiced in parts of Nepal expresses, like all forms of Buddhism, a belief in reincarnation. However, in this tradition, they believe that several people can be reincarnated as the same person at once, which they use as an explanation for multiple personality disorder. The voices in the head are justContinue reading “‘One Step Beyond’ – A Treatise on Obscure Afterlife Beliefs from Around the World”
‘No It’s True’ – A Treatise on the History of Warlocks
Warlocks – the term originates from the Old Northumbrian for ‘our hair’ as early warlocks were famed for their outrageously large beehive hairdos. In a footnote to his ‘Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum’, the Venerable Bede wrote ‘There are locals who forsake the Lord and instead besmear their loins in goose grease and applieth the sameContinue reading “‘No It’s True’ – A Treatise on the History of Warlocks”
‘Shall I Compare Thee to the Roundness of a Cox’s Orange Pippin’ – A Treatise on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18
Let’s take it a line at a time. “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?” – Shakespeare was of course famously indecisive – “To be or not to be?”, “This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill; cannot be good:”, “Darling you’ve got to let me know, should I stay or should I go?’. This ditheryContinue reading “‘Shall I Compare Thee to the Roundness of a Cox’s Orange Pippin’ – A Treatise on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18”
Treatises of Gloria 