Archive - Flat Caps and Fatalism

On measuring twice and cutting once

The worst workmen don’t measure. They just cut. The worst lawmakers are the same. Confident in their understanding, they wield law’s knife blindly. When…

Mar 15 •

May 2023

Spring dries into summer, and the hawthorns are having a fine year. White and woolly on the greening ground, they could be upright celestial sheep…

May 31, 2023 •

March 2023

Variations on gratitude

A note on pledges, a question for wild Christians, and a few links

Mar 15, 2023 •

On ghosts of nature

Mar 10, 2023 •

February 2023

Disjoints and connections

Feb 6, 2023 •

In praise of the people who know how to stay alive

Feb 3, 2023 •

January 2023

Against cyberpunk. For barbarism.

There is no third option

Jan 20, 2023 •

October 2022

My old computer is, though. I have foolishly got another one; and will, at some point, rewrite the next newsletter. The draft wasn’t automatically…

Oct 23, 2022 •

September 2022

Other things to read

Sep 30, 2022 •

Beauty will save the world

An interpretation

Sep 23, 2022 •

I am tired of England, Of Winston and sixty-six, Less a nation than a default setting, No thing stands for it. Welund made a spinning top, gifted it a…

Sep 14, 2022 •

Talking about demons

With Mike Hind at Rarely Certain

Sep 2, 2022 •

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