- Destroy all cars
- Slates, Slags etc to be played every evening in all pubs
- Resurrecting the corpse of John Dickson Carr to write a few more locked room mysteries. I know he maxed out the 83 possible locked room options but we have the internet and lack of local reality now.
Facts are of the schoolboy’s world
The following section, from Erving Goffman’s essay On Face Work, understood in political terms, is a lot more helpful than explanations provided by those who generally appeal to facts as being a trump card (‘appealing to the referee’, or ‘speaking to the manager’).
Continue reading “Facts are of the schoolboy’s world”The Perfect Kiss – Notes on Dublin Books 1: The Chester Beatty Library, MS 751
This opening shows clear traces of kissing, an act reserved for especially sacred passages, such as the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20.1-17)
Exhibition note for Samaritan Pentateuch,
Abi Barakatah
1225, Palestine (historical region)
CBL Heb 751 at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Logos: The word he utters, the truth that it contains…
Continue reading “The Perfect Kiss – Notes on Dublin Books 1: The Chester Beatty Library, MS 751”Lessons
I can learn such useful phrases as Exuberancía es Belleza:
improving spanish lingo
bought some books to help me with my day to day spanish
My day to day spanish is currently zero.
More Things Can Happen Than Will Happen
I see a lot of poor decision making and thinking because people, perhaps many people, do not understand the concept ‘more things can happen than will happen.’
Continue reading “More Things Can Happen Than Will Happen”Institutions and Ideologies
On holiday, and re-reading the beginning of Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s The Self Awakened, full of enormously potent and clarifying observations, and often quite intellectually thrilling to read, so much so that it gets my ‘feels too good’ suspicion heuristic going.
Continue reading “Institutions and Ideologies”Improving Spanish Tempos
…and the fish i was buying when i bumped into toby jones
it fell apart when i took it out because a) i cooked it for slightly too long and b) the fish slice has gone completely awol. kin great tho.
reminds me of this lunch i had near trafalgar after the second nicest birthday i’ve ever had:
after a difficult and stressful morning here (atlas mountains in the background)
and here
Berberian Sound Studio
Repost of an old tumblr entry, prompted by exchanging some mild pleasantries with Toby Jones this morning at the local market.
Continue reading “Berberian Sound Studio”What’s up?
I had a surprisingly nice evening.
Cycled up to the British Museum in the face of a bit of headwind for The Age of Stonehenge exhibition.
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