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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03, 2025
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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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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
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Pooh This is an ‘unpublished book review’ from late 1964??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 [...]
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11, 2024
Bees and Their Keepers
Bees and Their Keepers Once more in my life, I am indebted to Wikipedia. Among the many delights to be found in this online [...]
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10, 2024
Heart and Mind
Mary Midgley, Heart and Mind If there was a person whose biography was bound to attract my attention, then Mary Midgley has all the [...]
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10, 2024
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It was nearly fifty years ago that Robert M Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance appeared. I bought my copy a [...]
