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Life, what is it but a dream?

The two dream novels of Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1864) and Through the Looking Glass (1870), ended with

Any traveller who has had the misfortune to cross through a land border (or sometimes sea ports too) in Africa,

Expanding on the blog entitled “Is Life Designed to be a Misery?” which highlighted the relentless misery of life on

The short life of the travel writer Bruce Chatwin, who died in 1989, can be described as a life of

The phrase “history is written by the winners” has been said so many times that we no longer pay attention

From a certain point onward, there is no turning back; that is the point that must be reached. These words,

There is something calming and creative about the dead of night. The night allows consciousness to roam free from what

The beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. The reality that everything repeats in precise time cycles

Charles Fort’s remarkable 1919 book entitled The Book of the Damned details vast amounts of data about the world we

Books such as John Boyne’s 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Janusz Bardach’s 1999 memoir Man is Wolf