A whole year ago now, I got the bright idea of re-reading all Iris Murdoch’s 26 novels in the order they were written so as to write about them. I published a Glob on The Italian Girl @ https://wp.me/p1QjJc-O7; that seems a long time ago. I aimed to finish the project by Christmas Day 2017. I […]
National Service Nearly sixty years ago I was privileged (I suppose I was…) to undertake so-called ‘National Service’. One of its many personal beneficial outcomes, absolutely no doubt unintended, was to have me choose to be a convert to life-long pacifism. For twenty-four months I lived in the Sergeants’ Mess of 9TRRE Camp, Farnborough, Hampshire […]
Tzvarnoharno Last night I watched the brilliant Ken Loach film Hidden Agenda once again. There’s a trailer on YouTube which more or less says it all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYmGjSCw5ck At the end of the film I am left feeling that there is no hope for the world, nothing to be done about the skulduggery, the lying and […]
Making a Heap into a System You can have a heap of ideas—most people, including myself, do—this one, that one & several others all higgledy-piggledy; it’s possible that they may be connected in some way—everything is sub specie aeternitatis—but when they are in a heap all the possible connections are difficult, if not impossible, to […]
Re-reading BTTHG again… Reading matter that’s not for the sqeamish or for anybody just setting out to discover what the Gurdjieff canon is all about. §1 Many moons ago, when I taught Eng Lit, in order to encourage students to be bold, I used to preface any course by referring to Sartre (1947) who is […]
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