Tristan Gooley, observation and cognitive bias
Recently my brother gave me a present of Tristan Gooley‘s The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Tracks and Signs. I have read various Gooley books over the years, and to some…
Category: commonplace book
Empty Room, A S J Tessimond
Found at the ever wonderful First Known When Lost Empty Room The clock disserts on punctuation, syntax. The clock’s voice, thin and dry, asserts, repeats. The clock insists: a…
“Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision – Seven Centuries on Skellig Michael” by Geoffrey Moorhouse
I have yet to actually set foot on either Skellig. Geoffrey Moorhouse, in the preface to his Sun Dancing, describes being captivated by its appearance while on a family holiday in…
“the primacy of the material world over the digital”
From Janan Ganesh’s “Notebook” column in the FT, 29/10/16 (firewalled): As the internet stirred at the turn of the 1990s, its distance-closing properties were talked up. Speculative accounts of the near-future…
From “The Nature of Autumn” by Jim Crumley
From an extract published here Leaves must produce food out of thin air, or else there is no tree. Luckily for nature and all of us, they are extraordinarily good…
from “Bobby Fischer Goes To War”. Edmonds / Eidinow
“There were harsher and potentially more threatening judgments made of [Boris] Spassky.[Boris] Spassky. Baturinskii accused him of being under the sway of ‘objectivist views over the location of his match…
From “The Charlatan: The Skeptical, Mysterious, Supernatural True Story of a Christian Magician” by Jim Munroe
“The details are never the same, but there’s a common theme: God’s more interested in crafting a great story than preventing us from experiencing pain.” “Charlatans don’t have to try…
From “The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty” – Paul Evdokimov
The Creator, like a divine poet, in bringing the world into being out of nothingness, composed his Symphony in Six Days, the Hexameron. After each one of his creative acts,…
Séamus Sweeney 