Rob Ward in Žižkov c. 2019

Rob Ward: writer, translator, educator. British, Tschechisch, Brexit Irish.

This is my personal website. If it's here, I wrote it, installed it, and configured it. Below you will find many or most of the posts on the site - those from a handful of sections which I may change at will. Otherwise, click around: I tweak the above periodically, but for now "posts" typically contain only those pages I have not [yet] seen fit to place more specifically in the file hierarchy while zero or more "categories" and "tags" are added to posts ad-hoc. That should cover most of it, but if you are unsure, there is also a page listing all posts and, should you wish, you could start at the beginning.


Current status: uncomfortably numb


Bit Torrents

There have been things going up here and there about the latest entry into the world of Call Them Soldiers. I have made no real attempt to make any of this instantly comprehensible. Nor will I. You make an effort or you don't.

November, 2021

https://archive.org/embed/call_them_soldiers_1_-_march_2022 I'll likely throw together a handful of different texts here, but the following is being built around an entry made in an org capture template for "diary".1 Digging back over the many layers of the last few months has been a challenge for a number of reasons and I had been struggling to think back to how and when I started up on writing a new route through the world of Call Them Soldiers.

“Uk Perseveration”

An update. The below is the last git commit message, something I discuss in one piece I have updated in this commit and which ought, in future, to be handled in a tag, "Git". I have way too many irons in the fire and way too little in the way of time and resources, partly because I have, since I studied politics in the year 2000, thought way too much about how it will look when things really start to go to shit and, for those of us in that position, everything from Ukraine to the French presidential election to the cost of living crisis, to the current avoidable mess the Chancellor and the prime minister have got themselves into, to every single paragraph I read in every mainstream newspaper I know and every single second I watch of television (with the exception, so far, of Channel 4 News, which they are trying to quash) that handles any of the above and misses the point as cackhandedly as anything written in the decade the self-styled liberals sleepwalked into fascism the first time around.

One No Many Yeses Tantric Scene

NOTE: When I query this file it is listed as May 31st, 2021, which threw me even though I have been consistently saying that I have no idea of the chronology of the last two years or more what with Covid and everything else.

Drafting Workflow

Occasionally, I will transcribe drafts I am writing in Leuchtturm notebooks into a new section called drafting. The reader should be advised that these are sketches, typically in the first (and what may be the last) pass verbatim transcripts of whatever I have been writing longhand at any time over the last months and years…