Random Idea Generator: Earliest Childhood Memory

“While I’m caught up with the here and now and the where I want to be, most of the experiences and weirdo kid perspectives that made me who I am get lost in the logic and the cold reality of daylight and having to pay bills.”

Gadzooks! Contributor Lydia Shaw waxes nostalgic on writer’s block as she takes up the challenge of a Gadzookian game of random ideas.

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The full title of the painting which inspired our magazine title is Homo sapiens, Lepidium sativum and Calliphora vomitoria - a wise man, some cress, and a bluebottle. It is the work of British artist Stuart Pearson Wright.

"At the end of the first sitting, the Prince inspected the work and exclaimed 'godzooks' or 'godzounds', the artist was too alarmed to remember which."