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27 01, 2023

Transit of Venus

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722023-01-27T04:32:12+00:00January 27th, 2023|Books, Personal, Society|

DD – Transit of Venus I began to be an avid reader of 20th Century women novelists when I began life as an undergraduate, [...]

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13 01, 2023

Treasure Island

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722023-01-13T03:19:02+00:00January 13th, 2023|Books, Personal, Society|

Treasure Island I loved adventure stories when I was young, everything from Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven series to J M Ballantyne’s Coral Island, and [...]

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6 01, 2023

Theodore Zeldin

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722023-01-06T03:24:55+00:00January 6th, 2023|Books, Education, Personal, Society|

Theodore Zeldin Why am I attracted to people who deliberately place themselves out of the mainstream?  As an undergraduate studying social anthropology, I had [...]

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9 12, 2022

Virginia Woolf

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-12-09T03:00:01+00:00December 9th, 2022|Books, Education, Politics, Society|

Virginia Woolf In writing about Virginia Woolf, I’m going to take the easy way out.  I will avoid talking about her novels.  It’s a [...]

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25 11, 2022

Kurt Vonnegut

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-11-25T01:26:48+00:00November 25th, 2022|Books, Politics, Society, Technology|

Kurt Vonnegut When I first read Slaughterhouse-Five, way back in the 1970s, I knew almost nothing about postmodernist novels and their importance as a [...]

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11 11, 2022

John Updike

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-11-11T03:20:31+00:00November 11th, 2022|Books, Personal, Philosophical, Society, Technology|

John Updike It is always important to know the enemy, and on this occasion the enemy is me.  Let’s be clear, I am an [...]

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28 10, 2022

Charles Taylor

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-10-28T03:50:27+00:00October 28th, 2022|Books, Personal, Philosophical, Society|

Charles Taylor Tidying up some items in a desk drawer, I found a tin with several old coins inside.  I must have put them [...]

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14 10, 2022

Peter Singer

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-10-14T01:46:39+00:00October 14th, 2022|Books, Philosophical, Society, Technology|

Peter Singer Just about every day an expert is happily giving the rest of us advice on what we need to do.  The proposal [...]

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7 10, 2022

Here and There – Eire

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-10-07T02:58:09+00:00October 7th, 2022|Books, Personal, Politics, Society|

Here and There – Éire To someone brought up in England, the west coast of Ireland, Éire, always seemed exotic and different.  This was [...]

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30 09, 2022

Theodore Roszak

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-09-30T04:26:24+00:00September 30th, 2022|Books, Education, Politics, Technology|

Theodore Roszak The intellectual world in the late 1960s and early 1970s was vibrantly polemic.  While their students were taking to the streets in [...]

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