About this site

This is a “theme park”, a place for exploring themes, not a conventional WordPress blog. You may like to glance at its pretensions.

Surfer, beware

I call this website a “theme park” (intending the play on words). Since I hit 80, and registered the domain name, I have always wanted it to be a kind […]

A strange town

Have you ever got lost in a strange town? You may get that experience on this site. Not because I am a sadist (or incompetent). Rather because I want, now […]

In place of wisdom

Blake proclaimed, “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” As a young man, I used to dream that in my old age I would reach that palace. […]

20° C

I remember a sunrise. In Benghazi airport, to which, instead of Cairo, we had flown to from Khartoum—because of the Suez crisis. Outside, waiting for the flight to Rome, I […]