Scattered notes on a life. Maintaining the connection with the long views: poetry, history, literature, friendship, love. Distant echoes of Principia Ethica, Bloomsbury. Worries about the way we live now - connecting a private happiness with public worries: can pomposity be avoided?
It is eerie, reading Dan Andersson in Swedish: he sounds so strangely familiar, homely - and listening to his translations into Finnish, I cannot help thinking ...
It is eerie, reading Dan Andersson in Swedish: he sounds so strangely familiar, homely - and listening to his translations into Finnish, I cannot help thinking ...
It has been a late and slow spring this year, so we are experiencing a more arctic pace for the coming of summer even here on the south coast of Finland. Even ...
It has been a late and slow spring this year, so we are experiencing a more arctic pace for the coming of summer even here on the south coast of Finland. Even ...
A very esoteric subject to use the English language for, concerning most un-English things. Kalle Päätalo, a self-learned Finnish author, was in his time a ...