For my Mandarin Chinese homework, I have been set the task of promoting the deep fried Mars Bar—pinnacle of Scottish cuisine—to Taiwanese audiences. I am very proud of my translation of the delicacy into Mandarin: 炸馬霸 (Zhá Mǎ Bà), or Deep Fried Horse Hegemon.
Will Buckingham | 白忠修
Writer & Philosopher. Based in #Tainan, with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, #Myanmar. Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Some heavy-duty theological content in this mural spotted in Pingtung, Taiwan.
(Fall and redemption. Genesis meets Chris de Burgh...)
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
This was the loveliest way to spend a Friday early evening, listening to Hug Muzik / 曾立馨 performing their amazing Bossa Nova / Taiwanese pak-koán 北管 mash-ups in Xishi. Met lots of good folks, caught up with some old friends, then Youbiked back to Pingtung along the bike path under the railway line.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Got talking to the Hakka guy in the coffee shop across the road from our home. He said he'd guessed I was British because a) I'm not tall, and b) I seem cultured, whereas (I'm just reporting what he said... this is not an endorsement of his view) Americans are a) tall and b) uncultured.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
After years of refining and further refining a book proposal, and agonising over the market—an abstraction entirely beyond my comprehension—I've started from scratch, putting words to paper, writing what I want to write. And I've no idea how it's going to go, but there's life there, and fun, and a sense of something real.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
We're galloping into the lunar new year here in Taiwan, so here's Ludwig Wittgenstein, wishing you a very happy year of the horse. 馬上成功!
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
An excellent piece on the virtues of sad sandwiches by Misato Okaneya.
"Boterham demands no love or effort, and keeps the day going. I feel there is absolute trust in a boterham, not necessarily because it is excellent, but because it is simple and unpretentious."
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Had a dream last night that Nick Cave popped in to borrow a duster. I offered him a J-Cloth, but he regretfully declined, saying he wanted a proper duster or nothing at all.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Finished reading this on the train today, and it's a fun and interesting book. I have a soft spot for Zhuangzi's happy fish, and so this was up my street. It's also open access, putting the "free" into "free and easy wandering" (逍遙遊)
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111568171/html
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.