Category Archives: GGK’s Words
The Greatest Russians of all Time
This was first printed in the Globe & Mail, January 2009. It was recently reported that over fifty million Russians had decided the greatest Russian ever. In a broadcast on the state-run Rossiya channel, which concluded three months of telephone … Continue reading
Fun Stuff: GGK’s Note
Actually, Philosophers’ Walk is much-tamed from the way it was in my day – for a good reason. It was much darker at night, more secluded, with grassy mounds that added greatly to the sense of mystery and sequestered space … Continue reading
Byzantium and Sailing to Byzantium poems by William Butler Yeats
Byzantium by William Butler Yeats The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night walkers’ song After great cathedral gong; A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere … Continue reading
GGK’s note
There is no truth to the pernicious rumour (which I am just now starting, of course) that Keith Birdsong was chosen as the cover artist because of his name. — GGK
GGK’s note
The change came about because – to be oblique and subtle about this – I hated this cover with some passion. It emerged only because Penguin UK ended up in a huge time bind, as they raced to accede to … Continue reading