poliphilo

Little white specks have been floating about on the breeze. The first snow of the year? Only if you're prepared to stretch a point- but I suspect places further inland may have been copping for it good style. According to my instruments the temperature is 2 degrees Celsius.

I've been reading Stevenson's short stories. He's a great story teller- and that's a treasurable gift- but he's also subtle, subversive and funny- with a dry, straightfaced Edinburgh wit. His fiction regularly features ethically challenged but fascinating people- the most famous of whom are Long John Silver and Alan Breck Stuart...

I'm also reading Paul Wallis- the Australian archdeacon who has discovered- through discriminating and unbiased translation- that the Old Testament isn't about God at all but about technologically advanced alien colonists who came to Earth in the distant past and mucked abouut with humanity. This is so far from orthodox opinion that to state it baldly invites abuse and cancellation, but I think he's right. For one thing it explains why Yahweh habitually behaves like such an absolute bastard...