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Posted on October 8, 2016

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…

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Posted on October 7, 2016

Fiction update Oct 2016

Every so often I keep the billions of readers of this blog updated on my fiction. I am glad to say I have a story in the upcoming issue of Alt…

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Posted on October 7, 2016October 7, 2016

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…

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Posted on October 7, 2016May 15, 2018

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,…

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Posted on October 7, 2016

Kingfishers on the Suir

I blogged before about not seeing kingfishers along the Suir (on the Suir? in the Suir?). This was finally rectified this week. Rather than the “classic” sighting of a kingfisher either diving…

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Posted on October 6, 2016

“a wry, gentle masterpiece” My review of “A Smell of Burning” by Colin Grant in current issue TLS

Originally posted on A Medical Education:
Having alluded to this before, here it is ? Dreamy states and forced thinking SÉAMUS SWEENEY Subtitled The story of epilepsy, Colin Grant’s A Smell…

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Posted on September 29, 2016

Internal Conflict and Future Decisions

I find James Common’s blog “Common By Nature” consistently thought-provoking and interesting, and this rather ruminative post is no exception. It is interesting to read his thoughts on studying “management”,…

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Posted on September 28, 2016

Ros Scaite; Carrickfinn, Mullifinns, Carnboy & Dunmore

Nostalgia time again – the approach to Carrickfin has been voted one of the most dramatic airport approaches in Europe – with good reason.

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