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Posted on February 25, 2019February 27, 2019

Apologetic temperance

At The Frailest Thing, LM Sacasas has a post on digital detox provoked by this New York Times piece by Kevin Roose. The whole thing (in both cases) is worth…

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Posted on November 10, 2018November 10, 2018

Meet the dung cannon, the cabbage parachute, the crystal brain , the mousepee pinkgill, the midnight disco, and the scurfy twiglet

All the above are fungi, as I have discovered from reading John Wright’s  “The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names”   When I was a medical student I did…

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Posted on November 5, 2018

“silence is not sought for its own sake but, rather, for the space it makes.”

  From The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise, Cardinal Robert Sarah and Nicolas Diat:   Silence for us is a form of asceticism and a desire. Asceticism…

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Posted on April 7, 2018April 7, 2018

The past and future of handwriting- David Rundle in the TLS

In the current TLS there is an excellent review by David Rundle of two recent books on handwriting. Anyone who knows me, or more specifically had had to read my…

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Posted on March 1, 2018March 1, 2018

“the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you” = J G Ballard on Creativity

A while back I reposted an essay I wrote on Nthposition.com (which is now offline) in which featured a quote from J G Ballard: “Cyril Connolly said that the greatest…

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Posted on March 26, 2017March 27, 2017

Review of “Old Friends”, Tracy Kidder, 2000

This was written in around 2000 and originally appeared in The Magazine, a zine I self produced a few issues of. I ended up posting the review on Amazon  –…

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Posted on February 26, 2017July 25, 2017

“Sleeping, as we all know, is the most secret of our acts.”

Sleeping, as we all know, is the most secret of our acts. We devote a third of our lives to it, and yet do not understand it. For some, it…

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Posted on January 28, 2017September 10, 2017

Stained Glass from Church of St John The Baptist, Kilcash, Tipperary

Following my post on the  Stained Glass of Augustinian Priory, Fethard here is more stained glass from Tipperary. I am not especially proficient at photography and this was taken in something…

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