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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Timeless torture
This is a _Worm’s Eye_ column from November last year: Everyone knows that in Stalin’s Purges between 1935 and 1940 perhaps fifteen million people died after various forms of torture. It is less known that throughout this Terror the Russian … Continue reading Continue reading
An argument for which I will not charge royalties
bq. I thought I could not longer be shocked by the hatred and depravity of the usual crew of dhimmitudinous liberal al-Guardianistas who will see nothing good in any of the actions of this administration. Typically, they are screaming in … Continue reading Continue reading
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What does this mean?
Tim Garton Ash, “in the _Guardian_ today,”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1882501,00.html concludes by saying: bq. At this pivotal moment, we who live in the rest of the world, beyond the Washington beltway, also face a choice. We can watch like spectators in the cinema, … Continue reading Continue reading
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Mike Ford, a review never published
I did actually review his most recent book[1] for the _Guardian._ They never printed the review, because the book,sent me by PNH, was never published here. But I did send it to him, and got a kind note back.[2] Below … Continue reading Continue reading
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A friend you should have had (a note to Rupert)
Did you ever come across Mike Ford, “memorialised”:http://nielsenhayden.com/110.html at “Making Light”:http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008033.html these “last few”:http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008034.html#008034 days? He wrote the lovely “sonnet”:http://www.cafepress.com/speceng/1026245 in our living room. But go and read the linked posts anyway. They make a fence now, between us and … Continue reading Continue reading
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Textile despair
Some of the people who read this — I’m looking at you, Hammersley — know quite a lot about Movable Type. So maybe, somewhere you there on the lazyweb, is the person who can tell me why the individual archive … Continue reading Continue reading
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God’s magic telephone
Sam Harris asks[1] why we should respect George Bush for saying that he talks with God in the privacy of his bedroom. If he said that he talked to God using a magic telephone, then people would think him mad. … Continue reading Continue reading
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Notes from a scrapbook
Is religiously inspired morality a crane or a skyhook? That is to ask: when a religious person attempts to build their character in a particular direction, are they building on pre-existent morality, or hoiking down something from God or the … Continue reading Continue reading
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Some people only feel like this on Mondays
People keep telling me I’m gloomy these days. Very well; I’m gloomy. Let me share. Here are some fragments from the latest _NYRB._ bq. “Tim Garton Ash”:http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19371 In the relationship with Islam as a religion, it makes sense to encourage … Continue reading Continue reading
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