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Music, sweat, travel: appealing to the passions
In mid-September I was in London – all too briefly; and I apologise that it took so long to write about it… I can remember some of my response in words, at least, even if the visceral immediacy of it has faded. The short form: I went down to London, merely overnight, on a day…
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Depths… or dregs
Continuing to go through everything in my office… preparatory to moving. Which will be delayed a few days (hallelujah) and will be to a relatively large office at the quiet far end of a corridor… hmm my luck seems to be improving. (Don't get too excited, I'm only there for two years, then they move…
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Wandering the stacks
So: I am finally going through all the books, and then the papers, in my office. My office is being moved soon – rather sooner than I'd expected: repeated insistence on a clear date on my part gave rise to a flurry of emails assuring me that it wouldn't happen until mid-September; but now of…
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The Sorting Hat
So, while I was supposed to be doing something else, Eve Forrest generated some ideas on Facebook… and that made me do this. (Ha! 'made' – like she forced me into it…) Which house did the Sorting Hat put various philosophers and cultural thinkers into? *** The List. GriffendorHegelFoucaultJungSocratesCiceroAquinasNewtonGoetheMartin Luther KingBarthesSenecaUmberto EcoKoestlerGiordano BrunoMcLuhan SlytherinAdornoZizekFreudBaudrillardEagletonLacanF R…
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Power down / delete / restart
A strange time… that seems to fuse and clarify memories of other, earlier strange times. Including the past six months. Or the past three. The Jung-Institut weeks were – not fun, but somehow necessary. Several more turns of the wheel in understanding where/who I am. And my annoyance with myself over the past year –…
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Existence
That in-the-midst-of sense… Time recently past: too much stress since about the first of June – some of which twisted at me such that my guts started to react: I felt relatively calm but my body didn't. I'd still like to ascribe this – partly – to current liver damage; which will hopefully be cured…
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