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Einstein's Theory of General Midwifery

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Rick Morton

Rick Morton

03 Sep 2023 — 9 min read

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In Which I Am Very Silly

In Which I Am Very Silly

I deliberately booked the MRI for my knee in the late afternoon on the other side of Paris because I thought it would be fun to turn it into a walking tour and take some photos with my new camera. There is a logic to this, if you squint. I

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No Genou is Bad News

No Genou is Bad News

This horror story begins with a wandering brass band; my sirens. I will follow a brass band anywhere. There is just something about the way a tuba cuts a shape on the horizon – so brash, so untoward – that gets my motor running. The string band played as the Titanic went

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Down the Barrel of a Vin

Down the Barrel of a Vin

Despite appearances, I am not much given to writing about my personal life. Acres of print about my family, my moods, my eternal and meandering self-reflections have been produced. There is also the very fact of this newsletter, I suppose, but not so much about boys and various, or invariable,

By Rick Morton 26 Oct 2025
A New Three Laws of Motion

A New Three Laws of Motion

I night not tell you if I win the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, but there will be signs. Ha ha, I'm fully kidding. I did win it. The news was everywhere anyway. I was a push notification! I've discovered in the course

By Rick Morton 05 Oct 2025
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