Richard Thor Collins

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Aidan Manning is a London barrister with a flourishing career. Evelyn Machin is an ER surgeon from Los Angeles who saves lives every day. They live over five thousand miles apart but on a night in 2005, they wake up in the same place….

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If words were people

This post is now a bit dated. I wrote this in April, when we first went into lockdown in the U.K. If words were people . . . and went to a party.  And entered the room.  She was met by the familiar buzz….

Posted on October 19, 2020 by mirthandmelancholy

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What’s the matter with us?! Reflections on racism in America

George Floyd is having an impact. Far more in death than in life. What are we to say about the killing of yet another black man by police? This time, there is no controversy. He was not running away, or resisting arrest; he did…

Posted on June 5, 2020 by mirthandmelancholy

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In praise of great writing

  We watch the movies, the TV shows, and we think it’s the actors, the stars whose names we know . . . we think they are the important ones. They are not. It is the writers who count the most. Always. It is the…

Posted on July 23, 2019 by mirthandmelancholy

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