A Pebble on the Beach

“Or royally step to slake a thirst, under moorland mermaid birch.” These are the lines 358, and 359, from the poem A Scapeshifter, which goes on from, and corresponds to; the lines in T S Elliot’s poem The Wasteland “Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop, But there is no water”. The water in the Read more

Today; the 11th of May 2023 is remembered as the putative birthday of Jiddu Krishnamurti, born in 1895. Charles Webster Leadbetter, born in Stockport in 1854, and member of the Theosophical Society, then later; a bishop in the Liberal Catholic Church, identified J Krishnamurti as a future world teacher, claiming that he saw an aura Read more

In October 1922; the British literary magazine The Criterion, and in November, the American magazine The Dial; published T S Elliot’s modernist poem The Wasteland, which is widely acknowledged to be one of the great poetic works of the twentieth century. To mark its centenary, in 2022: and to contrast the present with the past, Read more