About
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Beyond the Blog. This is one of three sites in my alternative network. I am a fifty something Yorkshireman who discovered writing many years ago. The pages list my archive of essays. Give them a try. For my links, click Eye On the World. You may want to check out Eye On the World and North’s Review.
I post entries on current affairs almost daily on both sites. In addition I place at least two short stories a week on the Review, which also has writers’ resources. You can use the search facility on the sites. If you come across a My Sites post, ignore it. This function is not used at present.
PATTERNOLOGY
At the centre of my work is a discipline I call P-ology, or Patternology. The world is full of specializations, but could vital knowledge be lost in the gaps between them? Patternology is a holistic train of thought that looks at the specializations in their entirety, searching for patterns that the specialist may have missed.
Patternology can be seen as a bedfellow to specialization, keeping an eye on the specialist as well as the world. It can never offer truth, but patterns for the specialist to consider, placing them in a holistic jig saw that constantly remodels the picture.
Anthony North
CONTACT
You can email me on aneotw@gmail.com
Copyright (c) Anthony North, 2007-2008, and the licensors - all rights reserved
August 15, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Very interesting stuff you’ve got here. I’ll keep checking in.
August 15, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Hi Aberclay12,
I’m pleased you like the blog. Hope I can keep you interested.
August 29, 2007 at 11:35 pm
It sounds very interesting. I wish you well.
September 12, 2007 at 2:31 pm
thanks for the comment. You raise a very good point regarding the lack of community in play. I can guess that toy makers may argue that the individual toys create a sense of independence, however, in this day and age we need community more than ever.
September 12, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Hi Humminbird,
I feel the reason is a general slide in society towards individuality and loneliness as opposed to community. It’s beginning to infect everything. Worrying.
Thanks for visiting.
September 30, 2007 at 8:33 pm
I followed you here from a recent comment you made on the “Naked Soul” blog. What a great blog you have here. The little that I’ve checked out so far is very interesting… and I look forward to snooping around some more. Lots of good stuff here. Thanks.
~smj
September 30, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Hi smj,
Many thanks for that comment and welcome. Hope you visit often and enjoy.
October 1, 2007 at 2:04 pm
This blog is outstanding! To call it interesting is puttng it mildly. I’m happy I found it!!!!
October 1, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Hi ROBY 1,
Well thanks for that. I hope I can keep you interested. See you here again soon.
October 28, 2007 at 7:21 am
Rubbish time travel is indeed quite practicle and can be done it is like anything else it has to be dealt with like nay other aspects or inventions but to think it impossible is nonsense i am one of those who has always felt and belived it is just within our reach i myself want to go backward down the timeline since the past and the furture are linked to think that the apst is not still there is to fly in the face of reason the past is already still there and can be gone back into and well as the future which is already there as well. I think it is just a real matter of finding the way and i am not going to stop until i myself have done so. Thank You Jay!
November 11, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Hello
I hate to do this but a muse made me
Tag your it…
Please forgive me.
Poetman
November 16, 2007 at 12:27 am
Just landed on this site quite by chance. Will it be good fortune or bad- I will know in a couple of hours of reading…
Paul
First book now on Amazon
November 27, 2007 at 1:39 am
hi…. your blog site is truly informative and an eye opener.Based from your views that very wide and easy to understand,,,I end=joy visiting your site….. thanks for sharing your insights.
November 27, 2007 at 8:36 am
Hi Rhosie,
Thanks for that. It’s always good to know you’re appreciated, as are my readers. Hope to see you here again.
November 27, 2007 at 8:40 am
you’re welcome…… i will keep visiting your site……Have a nice day!!!
December 3, 2007 at 12:38 am
You do write a lot of interesting things Mr. North. Will keep reading it and hopefully one day I might be able to contribute to an article or two. Take care and keep up the good and informative work!
December 3, 2007 at 8:57 am
Hi GuardianAngel,
Thanks for that. Do feel free to comment. Feedback is so important to me.
December 17, 2007 at 3:29 am
Based on your archives…it looks as though someone is going to be celebrating and Anniversary with this blog…
(Am I correct?) Good on you Anthony…Keep up the good work…!
December 17, 2007 at 3:30 am
crap “an”, not “and”
December 17, 2007 at 10:17 am
Hi PM,
Well spotted. I actually opened my first blog a few months previously. Infact, I opened one for nearly every subject I cover.
Beyond the Blog was initially conceived as a ‘preview’ of my other blogs, with the odd post from each. Then it began to take off and I realised I could place the lot on it, with two supplementary blogs.
It wasn’t until I started the Diary of a Writer category, however, that I considered myself a proper blogger, actually joining the community
I should have done it long ago. It’s marvellous.
January 27, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Hi Anthony,
As you may have noticed, I’ve recently discovered your blog and have left a few comments. I’m enjoying reading your points of view, keep up the good work and hopefully I’ll be able to contribute a little.
I started my own blog a few weeks back but I’m not really as constructive as your good self. I must tame the ego!!!
Thanks for the insights.
January 27, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Hi Derwowski,
Thanks for the comment. I hope I can keep you entertained and thinking.
February 22, 2008 at 10:42 am
Damn me man….how am I ever going to keep up with you, I’ve been reading all week, and still haven’t finished :-). So many topics so much to think about, and so many points of convergence. Somebody ought to slow you down….just kidding
February 22, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hi Ian,
I’ve got a system. It may help
Every Sun and Wed I post my big Mysteries essays. Also, occasionally, I post one of my previously wirtten stories on North’s Review (look out for a Fiction Xtra link).
Everything else is purposely short (apart from my History of Man posts which are finished in a month, anyway). These are one or two super-short current affairs posts per day on Eye On the World, and short magazine posts here on Mon and Tue.
That’s about it, until we get to mad Thu/Fri, where I participate in the writers’ prompt game. This can mean up to five short posts within 24 hours.
Sat, I don’t post.
Hope that’s made it easy for you
April 2, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Nice to meet a fellow bloke in Thursday Thirteen land.
April 2, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Hi Nicholas,
And you, too, sir. I keep meaning to pop over to your blog at other times. Will do so soon.
April 13, 2008 at 3:37 am
Wow! I can’t believe that I didn’t find this blog earlier!
I’ve just spent the last hour reading various essays from your blog. Each one gets better than the other
If you don’t mind, can I link you?
April 13, 2008 at 8:10 am
Hi Trylobyte,
Welcome. And I’m pleased you like the blog. As for linking, of course you can. Nice of you to ask.
May 11, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Fascinating site and fascinating concepts. You can call this Western Yoga. Will be reading it often.
May 11, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Hi Rmjager,
Thanks for that, and welcome. ‘Western Yoga’? I like that.