Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

  What lying dogs we are! Beachcombing is referring to humanity’s extraordinary ability to warp and deform both our immediate perception of the world and also our memories of those…

…examplar of how the human ant-nest should function. However, not so fast! Beachcombing has given the general scholarly view on Atlantis here: Plato pulls Atlantis like a dying dove out…

…his invention Now most modern classicists belong to category (iii). Plato invented Atlantis to explain how the human beehive could and perhaps should work and all his warbling about Solon…

…pass their life in the far north, eat human flesh and subsist on the nourishment of that food… Also that there are men in the same latitude having one eye…

…human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the…

…Any kind of human relations with lightning – other than sensible fear – might at first sound strange. But lightning has always had a special role in the Christian tradition….

…You’d never think it would spread to Dollyland, but it does, for dolls are just as stupid as human beings, which is saying a good deal. The Flat Heads began…

…sadly about the transience of all things human and muse on what lying, distorting dogs we are. The facts. From 1787-1791 Austria under the unimpressive Joseph II (then Holy Roman…

…human achievements and a Forgotten Kingdom that makes him go weak at the knees. In his childish way though, he always particularly recalls one moment that symbolises the last Muslim…

…that attacks humans rather than a human shape-shifter. For example, under the third heading he writes: ‘the wolves do injury on account of their age. When a wolf is old,…

…his ‘monster’ semblance changed to a human one. A last shuddering dip into the fountain, a last hoarse roar and he was liberated from his nightmare. The werewolf passed quietly…

…horrified to find that one of their number turns into a human, a fact revealed by a fictional device not dissimilar to this one. The connection with the cemetery is…

Beachcombing recently offered three posts on the subject of lightning, trying to dig up some occasions when a bolt has changed, however modestly, the course of human history. Beachcombing must…

…himself back from human flesh in that time, he returns to the same marsh, swims back across it, and recovers his form, with nine years’ aging added to his erstwhile…

…down from university and cut off both from his degree and the buildings he so loves. Nevertheless there is a chivalrous affection for the human enemy. One of the photographers,…