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Adrian J. Boas
5 hours ago3 min read
Holding Time
Shortly after my mother died at the age of 88, I took a large portrait photograph of her to be framed. It had been lying about neglected...
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Adrian J. Boas
6 days ago3 min read
Fear of What Lies Ahead
Australian soldiers near Ypres. Frank Hurley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I recently had a molar pulled, an excruciatingly...
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Adrian J. Boas
Feb 43 min read
Reconstructing the Past
Reenactment of the Battle of Hattin. Photograph by Yelena Kon Every summer a group of enthusiasts sets out from near Moshav Tzippori in...
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Adrian J. Boas
Feb 33 min read
A Little More on Bibliophilia
In many ways I am a late bloomer. I began my university studies at the age of thirty-two, my academic career in my forties, and I became...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 304 min read
Never Judge a Cover by its Book
I think it is a great misfortune that book spines are so narrow. They leave us almost entirely in the dark. All one can generally see of...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 2710 min read
On Fabricating Facts
My novel, The Sulphur Priest (Wheatmark 2021) is set in a medieval castle. It has mystery and action, a couple of deaths, and so, though...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 234 min read
More on Imagination, and the Dilemmas of Writing Fiction
from Strappado from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot, 1633. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: from Wikimedia Commons How to...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 203 min read
On Fact and Fiction
Academics occasionally write works of fiction, but most often these works are stillborn. Their ill-fated destiny is to be forgotten in a...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 154 min read
A New Direction
After publishing my first novel, The Sulphur Priest , in 2021, a story that was very much bound up in my academic work as an...
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Adrian J. Boas
May 2, 20223 min read
Transience
It seems that the most splendid things are those the existence of which is most fleeting. Spring is here and already gone, and there is...
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Adrian J. Boas
May 24, 20214 min read
On Disappearances
Two unexplained episodes of people vanishing stand out in the memories in my childhood. One was the disappearance of an Australian Prime...
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Adrian J. Boas
Apr 21, 20212 min read
On Rural Footholds
The narrow dirt track, deeply ridged from the recent rains, passes uncultivated fields and vineyards where the twisted vines are just...
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Adrian J. Boas
Apr 13, 20213 min read
On Too Little of a Good Thing
After failing in numerous attempts at opening an external drive (the tiny white light on the side lit up and flickered like a distant...
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Adrian J. Boas
Apr 1, 20212 min read
On Selflessness and Gain
The concept of selfless love is a fine one perhaps, but how often is love genuinely selfless? How often do people do purely altruistic...
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Adrian J. Boas
Mar 24, 20213 min read
On a Beautiful Surviver
Stripped of almost all forms of embellishment, the convent church of St Anne has been recompensed for its losses, particularly in the...
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Adrian J. Boas
Mar 17, 20214 min read
On a Necessary Vulnerability
Several years ago, I obtained a dried lotus flower, and through a bit of research on the internet managed to find out how to geminate the...
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Adrian J. Boas
Mar 10, 20214 min read
Copy of On Locating the Stables
A large part of the appeal of archaeology lies in the fact that one never knows what one is going to uncover. It is perhaps one of the...
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Adrian J. Boas
Mar 10, 20214 min read
On Locating the Stables
A large part of the appeal of archaeology lies in the fact that one never knows what one is going to uncover. It is perhaps one of the...
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Adrian J. Boas
Feb 24, 20213 min read
On the Unluckiest Man
Recent excavations in the city of Pompeii uncovered the skeleton of a man who appeared to have been decapitated by a large stone. He was...
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Adrian J. Boas
Feb 16, 20213 min read
On Ecocide - an Arboreal War Crime
“All is fair in love and war” is an aphorism attributed to the sixteenth century English wit, poet and playwright, John Lyly. Basically,...
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