Poetic Timing Three days after Pablo Neruda was hospitalized with cancer in his native country of Chile in the autumn of 1973 after having been very ill for some weeks before, he died of heart failure on September 23rd at the age of 69. However, it wasn’t in just any month that Neruda’s final days … Read more
The Consequences of Breaking Off An Engagement in England The idea of being sued in court for changing your mind after promising to marry someone may seem quaint today. After all, couples break off their engagements or one jilts the other, and it is all put down to that mystery that is the human heart. … Read more
Taking Care Of Photographs Black and white photographs that have been stored in a shoebox for sixty or seventy years may be as clear and unfaded today as they were the day they were put away. And the reason is that the image in black and white photographs is made of very stable silver compounds … Read more