An Atherton’s Artificial Artifact! This entry is a companion-piece to the last one, Guess I Shall Goe Feed Upon Worms Alas, poor Hamlet! This enigmatic play is, perhaps, at the heart of Shakespeare’s mystique. It is, at least for many, the play that makes Shakespeare into something more… Continue reading
An Atherton’s Artificial Artifact! This is Part One of a Twofer! H, Part the Second, Will Come Tomorrow! Continue reading
Right. My Significant Other and I had a lovely time in Philadelphia today, touring a submarine and so on. The submarine was, by the way, pretty neat. We also visited a couple of bookshops… But the upshot of all this is that I am too tired to think of what… Continue reading
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An Atherton’s Artificial Artifact! Ladies! Don’t Be Shy! Name Your Brand! Just Tell ’em: Make Mine An Atherton’s! What is an Atherton’s Artificial Artifact? Click Here for a kind of explanation Continue reading
An Atherton’s Artificial Artifact! None Genuine Without This Guarantee! Today’s Offering: An Index For A Guide To Decorum and Deportment! Continue reading
An Atherton’s Artificial Artifact End-Notes 1 A surprisingly well-documented curse, as these things go. 2 Collected Letters of Thaddeus Carrington (1744) 3 The Raven of the Wessex Carringtons: origins of the curse unknown, but said by some to be the result of a pact with the Devil. 4 Many seem… Continue reading
B is for… Biography of a Bounder! Another fine product from Atherton’s Artificial Artifacts! Accept no substitute! (P.S. – I know I promised to do but a single page every day, but… things got slightly out of hand) Continue reading
The Alchemical Anchorite has been, in the three centuries since its discovery in a trunk in a Cavalier stronghold by an invading Roundhead who’d expected the trunk to contain Charles the First, a more than usually fertile field for wild academic speculation. Its anonymous authorship and unknown date of publication… Continue reading
I am a bibliophile. I really should not be allowed to go to used bookshops: I come away with bags of books, some of which I never intend to read. I buy them just to take them home and gloat over them in solitude. This makes the library at Atherton… Continue reading
