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Showing posts with label Rudyard Kipling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rudyard Kipling. Show all posts
Monday, 30 June 2025

More about stories as painkillers

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O ne of the many articles inspired by Rudyard Kipling and his words  quotes something he said that made a big impression when I first came a...
Sunday, 17 November 2024

Miscellaneous memorable material from Dion Fortune's occult novels

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E ach article in the series inspired by Dion Fortune's five occult novels  seemed like the last one at the time, but, even though the r...
Sunday, 29 September 2024

More memorable material from Dion Fortune's occult novels

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T his is yet another article in the series inspired by D ion Fortune's occult novels . It contains a few more of her thought-provoking p...
Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Inspiration and creativity in Conan Doyle's Magic Door

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T his is yet another article in the series inspired by Through the Magic Door , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's little volume of essays about b...
Tuesday, 9 July 2024

A few comments about life from a Dion Fortune occult novel

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T he first article in the series inspired by Dion Fortune's occult novels  contains quotations relevant to the topic of operating from a...
Tuesday, 16 January 2024

Oscar Wilde's interesting words about the colour green

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T he many occurrences of the colour green in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's essay collection Through the Magic Door   inspired an investigatio...
Saturday, 7 October 2023

Rudyard Kipling and some green connections

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P osts about Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle are very popular, so I am always looking for inspiration for more articles.  A fter writ...
Saturday, 17 June 2023

Conan Doyle's Magic Door and the amazing Kipling coincidence

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S ir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling have appeared in many posts on here, both separately and together. T hese posts attract large nu...
Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Stella Gibbons’s My American and writing: Part I

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A s previously mentioned, Stella Gibbons makes some insightful comments about writers, writing and the imagination in her novel My American ...
Sunday, 27 September 2020

Some writers with Celtic connections

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T he starting point for this article was a line in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novella The Parasite , which has been the subject of many articl...
Monday, 2 March 2020

Context and the total picture: Part I

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S ometimes a painful experience doesn’t feel quite so bad when we learn that other people, some very well known, have had a similar experien...
Monday, 20 January 2020

L. M. Montgomery and Rudyard Kipling’s Cat

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The Cat That Walked by Himself is one of the stories in Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic Just So Stories (1902).  T his book contain...
Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Diana Wynne Jones and the shortage of reading material

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D iana Wynne Jones is yet another writer who was a voracious reader as a child. Unfortunately, she never had nearly enough books to satisfy ...
Wednesday, 6 November 2019

L. M. Montgomery on Rudyard Kipling and writing to order

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I t came as no great surprise to learn recently that L. M. Montgomery was familiar with the works of Rudyard Kipling: as mentioned in previo...
Friday, 20 September 2019

More about Rudyard Kipling’s Daemon

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T here is a little more Daemon-related material of interest in Rudyard Kipling’s autobiographical work Something of Myself. H is anecdotes...
Sunday, 15 September 2019

Rudyard Kipling and his Daemon

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T his article was inspired by a short anecdote in Rudyard Kipling’s autobiographical work Something of Myself (1937). T his is where he...
Friday, 12 July 2019

Two more writers who were discouraged from reading

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T his article was inspired by a quotation in the previous one, which is about L. M. Montgomery and writing : “Reading stories is bad eno...
Saturday, 30 December 2017

A few words from Rudyard Kipling on his birthday

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W ords are one of the greatest of the unseen influences that affect our lives. I n February 1923, Rudyard Kipling gave a speech at the ...
Saturday, 23 September 2017

Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and the Isle of Wight

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W hen I visited Portsmouth and Southsea earlier this year, I thought about extending my explorations to another, nearby, seaside town - Ryd...
Sunday, 23 July 2017

Rudyard Kipling and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: some common elements

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W hile reading about the lives of Rudyard Kipling and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I noticed that they had a few elements in common in addition ...