Add ongoing quarterly power bills and it was tallying up to quite an expense; we were, after all, building a 38-square home for ourselves and two teenagers. So began a search for an alternative which led us, via my parents’ plumber, to a couple of Geelong-based renewable energy gurus...
The descriptions in both cantos perpetually rise from a basis of rhetoric to a real height of poetry. Byron’s “Rhine” flows, like the river itself, in a stream of “exulting and abounding” stanzas. His “Venice” may be set beside the masterpieces of Ruskin’s prose. They are togeth...
UK). To measure grip strength the mouse was swung gently by the tail so that its forelimbs contacted the grip bar. The mouse instinctively gripped the bar and was then pulled horizontally backwards, exerting a tension until the mouse released the bar. The maximum load was recorded by the gr...
When I read Ruskin, I perceived him as hopelessly naïve, standing as he was on the other side of that chasm. On the contrary, it is I who was naïve; Ruskin was watching the destruction of the land and of his society, whereas I’m standing at a vantage point from which all the...