Stained glass from St Mary’s Church, Killenaule
St Mary’s Church is one of the most striking Tipperary Churches I have come across. Designed by a student of Pugin (reportedly) it is an impressive structure set onto a…
Category: complexity
Why people still buy luxury watches – From “Timekeepers”, Simon Garfield
“But there is another reason for the proliferation of the wristwatch beyond our innate desire to preen. Telling the time has, since sometime in the fifteenth century, been the way…
Mourinho at Baselworld
It is hard to parody the overheated rhetoric of the luxury watch business’ merchandising arm. In his book Timekeepers, Simon Garfield has some very funny passages on the world of…
“False tension between the Christian and classical worlds”: from Victor Watts’ Preface to his translation of “The Consolation of Philosophy”, Boethius
A while ago I blogged about Albrecht Durer’s engraving of St Jerome in his study. I linked to and quoted an article on St Jerome by James R Edwards which…
“his ideas have a curious tendency to come to life” – Therese Scarpelli Cory on studying Aquinas
From Medievalists.net, an interesting interview with Therese Scarpelli Cory, Professor of Philosophy and author of Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge. I found the following passage particularly interesting: So when I had…
Orcs and Oulipo – TLS piece by Peter Hoskin on Fighting Fantasy
There’s an affectionate piece on Fighting Fantasy books on the TLS website by Peter Hoskin (I am not sure if “TLS Online” means it will not appear in the print…
“The story-within-a-story done right” : review of “The World House”, Guy Adams, SF Site 2010
Original here. Despite my enthusiasm here – and what I wrote in the penultimate paragraph – I didn’t read any of the succeeding books in this series. I was never,…
Laptop Warriors – on the “Stealing the Network” series. SAU Blog, October 2007
As it stands, my last contribution to the Social Affairs Unit blog is this piece on two novels written by (firstly) Ryan Russell, Tim Mullen (Thor), FX, Dan “Effugas” Kaminsky, Joe Grand, Ken…
Séamus Sweeney 