Scrievenis: Gordon Darroch's reading and writing space
Making things up since 1837. Contact me at gordonwrotesomething [at] gordondarroch.com
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Gothic Arch, from Le Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), First Edition (1750) In José Luis Borges’ The Immortal, the opening story of The Aleph, the narrator, a Roman soldier, sets out to find the City of Immortals, an abandoned metropolis located across a desert – intrigued by the question: if its residents … Continue reading Borges’ buildings and the prison of the imagination
One of Copenhagen’s most famous landmarks is the tower of the Church of Our Saviour with its external helter-skelter staircase. The church itself is a Renaissance colossus, an elegant brute in the Dutch baroque style with Greek and Italian inflections, and it boasts northern Europe’s largest carillon, but it is the tower specifically that captures … Continue reading Politics, an unavoidably twisted affair