There is a connection between instinct and story-telling.

Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the 'things' of that particular country: leaves, f…

To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name wi…

Down the mountain walls From where pan's cavern is Intolerable music falls. Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear, Belly, shoulder, bum, Flash fishlike; nymphs and…

Nothing is so boring as listening to someone else describe a dream.