Wilhelm Nero Pilate

Bruce Frederick Cummings (1889 – 1919) was a naturalist at the British Museum. He published his journals under the pseudonym Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion.  ”I will go on with this diary,” I read between the lines. “You shall have at least one specimen, carefully displayed and labelled. Here is a recorded unhappiness. When you talk about life …

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