The wisdom of silence
Adam de Ville has a particularly good post on Eastern Christian Books on Terry Eagleton’s book on sacrifice. This is an especially rich post covering a range of topics… but…
Category: the world of childhood
From “A Practical Guide to Time Travel” by Brendan McConnell
From “A Practical Guide to Time Travel” by Brendan McConnell, page 132 … What they don’t tell you about time travel is the emotional dislocation. I suppose my voyage, undertaken…
Simon Jacobson on “honouring thy father and thy mother”
The commandment to “honour thy father and thy mother” is one that, one would like to hope, is usually relatively straightforward. Many of us (most of us?) can fairly easily…
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…
“We tire of distraction or concentration. we sleep and are glad to sleep”
From “Choruses from the Rock”, T S Eliot: In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and…
From “The State”, a short story by Tommy Orange
From The New Yorker, drawn from Orange’s forthcoming novel There There Before you were born, you were a head and a tail in a milky pool—a swimmer. You were a…
The lost world of Ana Olgica
(edit 22nd August 2018 – readers may also be interested in the careers of Amity Cadet and Enno Aare) Ana Olgica on Spotify. Continuing from my profile of the work…
“the vulgar and rather infantile things you really do want” – Adam deVille on prayer and psychoanalysis
I have linked before to Eastern Christian Books, the blog of Adam de Ville. One of deVille’s recurrent themes is the unnecessary and unhelpful perceived antagonism between psychoanalysis and religion..…
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