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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Gone Fishing
I’m off to the photograph in the header for three weeks and I don’t plan to post anything until August the 6th or 7th. Have a wonderful summer, all of you.
Posted in Blather, Housekeeping, Sweden
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FT review of Fishing in Utopia
Another gratifying review, from the Financial Times, where Hugh Carnegy, the executive editor, likes Fishing in Utopia,a lot, though he thinks, god knows why, that I am “a melancholy soul”. It is the window on Sweden that gives this book … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Literature, Science without worms, Sweden, Travel notes
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a throwaway line
All civilisation depends on two things: self-restraint and hope for the future. That’s why it can survive some wars. But if they go, it goes.
Posted in Blather
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Another really good review
John Carey reviews Fishing in Utopia,in the Sunday Times: thoughtful and illuminating, with a kindly quote towards the end: Fishing in Utopia is a lament for a lost Eden. But it is more than that. Essentially it is a story … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Literature, Sweden
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Back to bed with Diarmaid
Another hundred pages of MacCulloch’s Reformation this morning; wonderful stuff. The parallels with today are not in the least bit cheering; among them the way in which the printing press, like the Internet, allowed everyone, however ignorant, to join in theological … Continue reading
Posted in God, Literature
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Buy this week’s New Yorker
for a wonderful essay on Chesterton by Adam Gopnik (not online) which tackles the question of his anti-semitism head on. I had not realised quite how vile it was; as Gopnik says, if he was a man of his time, … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Literature
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A glimpse of hell
Perhaps because I am feeling depressed by illness, unable either to walk or work as hard as is normally needed to keep low spirits away, the world seems horribly meretricicious. I watched an episode of the Wire last night, in … Continue reading
Posted in Blather
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Four weeks
Tomorrow it will be four weeks since the bloody ear infection started, which explains the infrequency of posting. In that time I have never known whether some sudden injudicious gesture, like wiping a sweaty forehead on my sleeve, will convert … Continue reading
Posted in Blather, Housekeeping
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