First Conversation, “The Practice of the Presence of God”, Brother Lawrence
More on this book. The first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon the third of August, in the year 1666. He told me God had done him a great…
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The Immanent Self: Epigenetics, Modern Liberalism and Spinoza
Originally posted on The Nexus of Epigenetics:
by Shea Robison (@EpigeneticsGuy) (The following is a summary of a talk presented at the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy on January 11, 2016.…
From “Quest for God in the Work of Borges”, Annette U. Flynn
I recently started this book by UCD Lecturer Annette U Flynn. Her biography is worth noting and outlines a winding if not forking path into academia: I grew up…
“This Woful Elegy”: the grave of William Costello, “of the parish of Grangemocler”
Visiting the Killamery High cross, I spied just to the south of the cross a striking gravestone, that of “William Costello, of the parish of Grangemocler”. With a little bit…
Literary graffiti in Clonmel
The other day I spied this scrawled on a wall in Clonmel: Impressively erudite, and with correct use of apostrophes. Although I did find the need to specify that these…
Adam DeVille on Christopher Bollas’ “Meaning and Melancholia”
From Adam DeVille’s Eastern Christian Books blog: In this short book, Bollas imitates Freud in some ways insofar as he engages in broad cultural analysis of many themes of…
“To use a crank, our tendons and muscles must relate themselves to the motion of galaxies and electrons.”
From Lynn White’s “Medieval Technology and Social Change“, Chapter III, Section 2, “The Development of Machine Design” (114-5) Students of applied mechanics are agreed that ‘the technical advance which…
Robert Louis Stevenson bequeaths his birthday to Annie Ide
I had read somewhere that Robert Louis Stevenson had bequeathed his birthday (13th November) to a girl who was born on Christmas Day. Lately I came across Katherine Miller’s poem…
Séamus Sweeney 