Mark Walsh

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“…so cloudy, that I cannot understand
this figure as it fades into the background.
Oh quickly disappearing photograph
in my more slowly disappearing hand.”

- Rilke

“…so cloudy, that I cannot understand
this figure as it fades into the background.
Oh quickly disappearing photograph
in my more slowly disappearing hand.”

- Rilke

#NowReading

Waking, Awake, Woke.

Waking, Awake, Woke.

In spring, I listen to Bruce Springsteen, but now that it’s winter, I listen to Cameron Winter.

My favourite ending to a book.

My favourite ending to a book.

One Christmas my Uncle got us a real tree but it wouldn’t fit in the front door so it had to be cut and trimmed to such an extent that it looked so bad no one could be bothered to decorate it. It ended up slouched against the wall all Christmas until it withered and died. Good memories.

One Christmas my Uncle got us a real tree but it wouldn’t fit in the front door so it had to be cut and trimmed to such an extent that it looked so bad no one could be bothered to decorate it. It ended up slouched against the wall all Christmas until it withered and died. Good memories.

Yeah, I bet someone has though.

You don’t hear of many people called Heathcliff anymore.

This is a great desk.

You don’t hear of many people called Heathcliff anymore.

Despite what I read online, the only connection I can see between Stranger Things and Twin Peaks is that Stranger Things was created by twins and it has been the peak of their careers so far.

Despite what I read online, the only connection I can see between Stranger Things and Twin Peaks is that Stranger Things was created by twins and it has been the peak of their careers so far.

#NowReReading

#NowReReading

If I wanted to know what songs, artists, genres etc I listened to the most in a year I’d keep a record of it myself with a pencil and paper.

If I wanted to know what songs, artists, genres etc I listened to the most in a year I’d keep a record of it myself with a pencil and paper.

Cameron Winter’s real name is Cameron Christmas but he “went woke” and changed it to Cameron Winter.

In spring, I listen to Bruce Springsteen, but now that it’s winter, I listen to Cameron Winter.

Lynchian 'Terrifically lucid and compact . . . an unassumingly intuitive and insightful brief history . . . will tell you more about [Lynch's] life and filmmaking tha...

Have decided on the Christmas present that I’ll be buying myself. www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/john-...

Lynchian 'Terrifically lucid and compact . . . an unassumingly intuitive and insightful brief history . . . will tell you more about [Lynch's] life and filmmaking tha...

Have decided on the Christmas present that I’ll be buying myself. www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/john-...

Hopefully this overlooked novel will now start to get the recognition it deserves.

Books read in November 2025. My favourites were probably Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy and The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey.

Hopefully this overlooked novel will now start to get the recognition it deserves.

Books read in November 2025. My favourites were probably Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy and The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey.