At Play In the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord There is little more fascinating than discovering and meeting with people from another culture, especially if [...]
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03, 2025
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03, 2025
After Pooh
After Pooh And after Pooh, there was Piglet. If Winnie-the-Pooh was to offer an introduction to the world of Western philosophy, then his shy [...]
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02, 2025
Journey to the East
DD60 – The Journey to the East I first came across Hermann Hesse’s short story, The Journey to the East, reading a book by [...]
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12, 2024
Is Beauty natural
Is beauty natural? In 1833, two years into his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, a 24-year-old Charles Darwin wrote to his sister Catherine, entreating her [...]
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12, 2024
The End of Time
The End of Time Nearly a quarter of a century later, it is hard to recall all the excitement – and angst – that [...]
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12, 2024
What Happened to Class
What Happened to Class? When I was growing up in the UK, class was an accepted feature of the social world. It wasn’t so [...]
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11, 2024
Fionavar
Fionavar Re-reading The Summer Tree, the first book in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar Trilogy is both a delight and a puzzle. The delight I’ll [...]
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11, 2024
Descarte’s Error
Descartes’ Error I can’t remember why, back in 1995, I bought a copy of Antonio Damasio’s book, Descartes’ Error. Was it the cover, with [...]
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11, 2024
Pooh
Pooh This is an ‘unpublished book review’ from late 1964?? It would have been something to submit it to the Carleton Miscellany that year, [...]
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11, 2024
The Culture of the New Capitalism
The Culture of the New Capitalism It is often hard to explain – to oneself and to others – why you are drawn to [...]
