Section: Mr Nobody: With this heading I am reminded of the famous song of The Beatles from the 1960s called Nowhere Man . The opening lyrics of this famous song, written by the late John Lennon , are: He's a real nowhere Man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Does...

Remember in Dead Poets Society where they try to analyze poetry via graph and then Robin "O Captain My Captain" Williams tells them to rip up their books and then Eric Foreman's dad, Clarence Boddicker, makes House's friend kill himself? Well, people keep trying to quantify musical quality a la J. E...

I remember years ago when I was in fifth and sixth year in secondary school the school librarian telling us that history was a most essential subject because it taught us to review the past so that we should not make the same mistakes again.  He also informed us that no matter what subject we w...

I remember when I was a first year student in secondary school having a very young teacher for science who informed us that we should all develop "a curious nose."  Curiosity is one of the greatest motives in the pursuit of knowledge.  What naturalist or scientist has ever not be...

We are creatures bounded by our senses.  In a way they define who we are.  I refer here to our five senses which hardly need naming, viz., hearing, seeing, touching, tasting and smelling. I have used the gerund or present participle or verbal noun, call it what you wish, to express the act...