Hookland 8/8/18 5:54:07

I could write of pleasant ghosts – the dogs buried in the garden whose shades race the lawn, whose ether nudges my hands – but no-one wants to read of pleasant ghosts. – #CLNolan in a letter to #ArthurMachen

Hookland 8/8/18 6:33:02

@lornarichardson Yes and no. My mother self-taught herself back in the 1970s when learning resources were scarce (especially for single-parent families) has always claimed that once you get to terms with the Russian alphabet, it begins to unlock quite easily, but gaining the sort of insight …

Hookland 8/8/18 6:34:34

@lornarichardson … that allows you to read books in the original Russian so that the poetry of the language flows into you takes much longer than it does in most Romance languages.