The Blind Philosopher and the God of Small Things: Quirky Verse, #4

By Barnaby Wilde

A collection of verse full of weak puns and jokes, loosely related by two men with long white beards, including 'Just Another Day in Paradise','Simply Saving Silences',and 'Twenty Things Worth Knowing, Including Some that Aren't'.
Pausing along the way only to consider Why don't sheep shrink in the rain? What was best before sliced bread? and Could I dig half a hole instead?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnaby Wilde
• Release date: Jan 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466113145

Barnaby Wilde

Barnaby Wilde is the pen name of Tim Fisher. Tim was born in 1947 in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, but grew up and was educated in the West Country. He graduated with a Physics degree in 1969 and worked in manufacturing and quality control for a multinational photographic company for 30 years before taking an early retirement to pursue other interests. He has two grown up children and currently lives happily in Devon.

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The Blind Philosopher and the God of Small Things

a collection of verse

by

Barnaby Wilde

Copyright 2012 by Barnaby Wilde

Barnaby Wilde asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Published by Barnaby Wilde at Smashwords

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Cover picture from 'The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges' by William Blades (1824 – 1890).

Other published works by the author available as ebooks.

A Question of Alignment – a Tom Fletcher novel

I Keep Thinking It's Tuesday – a Tom Fletcher novel

Every Which Way but East – a Tom Fletcher novel

Animalia – a collection of quirky verse with an animal theme

Life… -- a collection of verse on a vaguely 'life' related theme

The Blind Philospher and the God of Small Things -- more verse, with a philosophical theme and bad puns.

Not at all Rhinocerus – a collection of verse with almost no mention of rhinoceros

A Little Bit Elephant – a collection of very quirky verse which is only slightly elephant.

Tunnel Vision – a collection of longer verses featuring flying saucers, dining tables, whales and shoes, with puns and jokes as usual.

The Well Boiled Icycle -- 35 New 'quirky' poems featuring Clockwork Wellingtons, Goldfish, Jugglers and Gingerbread Men, but not necessarily in that order.

Barnaby's Shorts (volumes 1 to 9) – 10 coffee break sized short stories in each to suit all tastes. Romance, mystery, sci fi, humour and adventure.

Flowers for Mercedes – Volume 1 of the Mercedes Drew Mysteries. Three complete stories about Detective Inspector Flowers and Mercedes Drew.

Free Running – Volume 2 of the Mercedes Drew Mysteries. Three complete stories.

Flandra – Volume 3 of the Mercedes Drew Mysteries. Three complete stories.

Smile for the Camera – Volume 4 of the Mercedes Drew Mysteries. A full length Mercedes Drew story

For more information visit www.barnaby-wilde.co.uk

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