Samuel Wood

Samuel Wood

WRITER – EDITOR – TEACHER

  • WHY A RHINOCEROS?
  • On Death 2

    When things have all got a bit too much (and if I remember) I sit and imagine our planet and the noise we produce seeping out into an empty and silent universe. Perhaps ours is the only sound of what we call “life”. At some point, those sounds will end, and the universe will return […]

    Samuel Wood

    February 10, 2022
    Writing
    buddhism, byron, death, ecclesiastes, extinction, jodie foster, sci-fi, tara brach
  • On Death 1

    It is the first week of January, and I’m standing in the Chapel of the Nine Altars at Durham Cathedral. In front of me lies a gravestone, on top of which lies my four-year-old nephew, acting out his current obsession. Behind me are the remains and shrine of Saint Cuthbert. To my left, an altar […]

    Samuel Wood

    January 30, 2022
    Writing
    childhood, christianity, death, durham cathedral, paula rego, science, thomas more
  • Why a rhinoceros?

    Behold! Albrecht Dürer’s rhinoceros! It is a marvel of imagination and technology. Not only did Dürer make his woodcut from written descriptions, but, with the arrival of moveable type printing, it became one of the best-known images in sixteenth-century Europe. The rhinoceros was the Grumpy Cat of 1515. The rhinoceros and printing mark the start […]

    Samuel Wood

    January 26, 2022
    Uncategorized
    dürer, editing, proofreading, renaissance, rhinoceros

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