The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.
I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will wait for that erotic moment - like the one … - Robert Dessaix
I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will wait for that erotic moment - like the one …
- Robert Dessaix
In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that… - Robert Dessaix
In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that…
The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignifican… - Robert Dessaix
The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignifican…
Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of. - Robert Dessaix
Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and t… - Robert Dessaix
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and t…
It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before. - Robert Dessaix
It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight. - Robert Dessaix
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.
I think that a lot of people do have a physical Ithaca, but I don't think that I do and I think that a lot of people do not. This depends on your val… - Robert Dessaix
I think that a lot of people do have a physical Ithaca, but I don't think that I do and I think that a lot of people do not. This depends on your val…
I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox. You see it in Western Europe more and … - Robert Dessaix
I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox. You see it in Western Europe more and …
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