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Posted on December 6, 2018December 6, 2018

The demands of silence

On of the recurrent themes of this blog has been various writings – by others, by myself – on silence. Of course, all this verbal activity on silence carries with…

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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 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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Posted on December 27, 2016

Marilyn McEntyre on sleeplessness and the night vigil

I drift off happily at bedtime, but now wake between three and four in the morning. I like to wake early, but not quite that early. At that hour, I’m…

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Posted on April 23, 2016

Sleep and dreams

One of my interests is sleep. Some of this is personal; I  used to think I was a “bad sleeper”, until I discovered that thinking you are a bad sleeper makes…

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Posted on March 23, 2016March 30, 2016

From “Rituals” by Cees Nooteboom

“I sleep very little,” said Philip Taads. He was sitting in the same place as yesterday and wore a plain blue kimono. “Sleeping is senseless. A peculiar form of absence…

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Posted on February 7, 2016

From “The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters” by Adam Nicolson

So uncatchable is Odysseus that when the poem describes his state of mind, you can never be certain where to find him. When he is lying in bed, anxious and…

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Posted on February 5, 2016February 7, 2016

Heraclitus on sleep: from “The Poetry of Thought”, George Steiner

Grammatical construction can make of an apparent riddle or paradox a font of expanding intuition: “Death is all things we see awake; all we see asleep is sleep.” Ring-structures spiral…

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