Alan Bleakley is a lecturer in psychology at Cornwall Technical College.
As he was setting the insect in resin He thought he could hear the singular buzz of its flight, As if the creature had turned up the volume at its death On a million entrapped wingbeats, clipped By the resin cooling clear as glass. The hum of the wingbeats grew stronger. He eyed the specimen closely, while Sound poured from the cold round of resin Into the cases of chloroformed moths That...
Some little time ago the art of printing with movable types was developed, and this has meant in the end that everybody can know everything. There is no hidden knowledge. There is no longer any...
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