Two Views on the Nature of Language: Nietzsche and Auden
Originally posted on anenduringromantic:
“That for which we find words is already dead in our hearts,” says Nietzsche. “There is a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.” Language, then,…
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“Mental health apps offer a head start on recovery” – Irish Times, 18/01/18
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
Here is a piece by Sylvia Thompson on a recent First Fortnight panel discussion I took part in on apps in mental health. Dr…
“woefully unstable and vain”: Darrell Figgis, forgotten and despised man of the Irish Revolution
(edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on a strange experience in Dunfanaghy and here on a literary bus conductor. And I feature a seasonal…
The many uses of St Columba
From Richard Sharpe’s introduction to his translation of of Adomnan’s Life of St Columba, there are some fascinating passages on how Columba came to be used as a sort of…
“someone who is abnormally normal” – Christopher Bollas, Adam deVille, social media, and the “normotic” self
Adam de Ville, who who I have linked to before, has a fascinating post on Christopher Bollas, and how he (deVille) came to an appreciation of the enduring insights of…
Honesty on Google vs Facebook – a footnote from John Lanchester
An essay worth reading in full on Facebook which contains this amusing footnote: Facebook already had a huge amount of information about people and their social networks and their professed…
Elizabeth Taylor’s Gloomy Sundays
From Elizabeth Taylor’s “Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont”: On Sundays – especially p.m. – Ludo was always depressed. Something lowering was in the air : at least three times during…
#Inktober 2017 – The Art of Susan Alman
20. Deep#inktober #inktober2017 #humpbackwhale pic.twitter.com/uPDFYolrG3 — Susan Alman (@Dolphiana) October 20, 2017 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js “One of the joys of Inktober was discovering illustrators of unique, strongly personal vision. One such is…
Séamus Sweeney 