Will Russell
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The Last of the Prendergasts
The road on which Hector Prendergast lived was a tunnel of oak trees with large houses behind ivy covered walls. It curved up a steep hill leaving the small town sagging in the swampy valley below. The small town was a mess of cracked buildings in which sourpuss merchants fed, watered and clothed a muddy and scowling citizenry who crept in from little sinking houses circling its one long street. The street was most of the time covered in a heavy fug that wafted from the swamp.
By Will Russell4 years ago in Fiction
The Crush
The bunkhouse was in the French style, painted white under a black slated roof, upon which sat a rusting iron cockerel who used to tell which way the wind blew. The floorboards creaked under Harrison as he crept out. Dawn chased shadows across the Pyrenees, bringing the last day of the crush.
By Will Russell5 years ago in Humans
Where Does Vanilla Come From?. Top Story - March 2021.
Poor dull Vanilla gets an awful rap. Its name has been railroaded into meaning boring or conventional or unexciting. Think vanilla. Think blah. Think bland. Think basic. That provenance was derived from a perverse misstep of vanilla ice-cream being labelled as plain ice-cream. But plain means popular — for a third of us — vanilla is our favourite ice-cream flavour with sexy, cool, hot-shot chocolate languishing a distant second.
By Will Russell5 years ago in FYI
Jung & The Value of Anxiety Disorders
"I am not altogether pessimistic about neurosis. In many ways we have to say, “Thank heaven he could make up his mind to be neurotic.” Neurosis is really an attempt at self cure…It is an attempt of the self regulating psychic system to restore the balance, in no way different from the function of dreams — only more forceful and drastic.” Carl Jung — The Tavistock Lectures
By Will Russell6 years ago in Psyche
