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Posted on April 29, 2018April 29, 2018

“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…

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Posted on October 1, 2017October 1, 2017

October in the Cairngorms – from Nan Shepherd, “The Heart of the Mountain”

Among drifts of these purple glowing birches, an occasional rowan looks dead; its naked boughs are a smooth white-grey, almost ghastly as the winter light runs over them. The rowan’s…

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Posted on September 22, 2017

“an author whose books were marvellous but rather the same” – Elizabeth Taylor and Andrei Makine

I have just begun reading Elizabeth Taylor’s At Mrs Lippincote’s (not, it feels obligatory to point out, not that Elizabeth Taylor. From Valerie Martin‘s introduction: Though I never met either…

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Posted on September 11, 2017

From “The Making of Mr Bolsover”, Cornelius Medvei

Perhaps then, Mr Cruikshank suggested, he would like to tell everyone which political figures he did admire. Without hesitation Mr Bolsover named Lord Salisbury, Queen Victoria’s last prime minister. Amid…

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Posted on February 26, 2017July 25, 2017

“Sleeping, as we all know, is the most secret of our acts.”

Sleeping, as we all know, is the most secret of our acts. We devote a third of our lives to it, and yet do not understand it. For some, it…

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