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Looking across from my train at Blackfriars Station, down along the Thames to the silhouette of Tower Bridge and the city around it, already in the early morning beginning to bake in another heatwave at the end of a completely rainless summer, I find myself wondering how long it will be before the whiplash effects Continue reading "Thursday"
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feel for the guy checking out maslow’s hierarchy of needs next to me on the train this morning. hang in there buddy.
A week where I hit a wall in terms of stress and fatigue, so that Saturday was a complete write off, and my mental acuity is so poor I’m wondering whether it warrants medical assessment. Not wanting to return to the week another heavy duty one with nothing to show for my weekend, Continue reading "Shoring up against our ruin"
Concepts do many things at once, but men do much the same thing as their fellows Chapter3: The Coming of the Other, Plough, Sword and Book Ernest Gellner
An independent image that stalks into the world like a new monster Frank Auerbach And in those voices there was a gloomy desire for vengeance The Twenty Days of Turin, A Novel – Giorgio de Maria
Though inadvertently here at the height of the tulip season, an international event it turns out. Thousands of ‘tulip fuckers’ descending by the coachload on the Keukenhof. As an old and highly respected university town, it is a pleasing mix of the tranquil and studious, and bustling and young – pleasing to me anyway. Can’t Continue reading "Leiden is Nice. That’s it. That’s the Post."
Reading Plough, Sword and Book by Ernest Gellner, I enjoyed the ‘matrix’ of conflict and agreement between rationality or the observed world and maintaining the social norm in ‘pre-rational’ societies – societies of the plough in the framework of the book. This situation is of course very far from being confined to those societies and Continue reading "High priest says it is raining, High priest…
living no sort of quality of intellectual life at the moment but food doesn’t care about that. as more than one person has said boiled beef and carrots is about the closest you get to something pot-au-feu in food from this archipelago. as long as you take care over the broth and skim during its Continue reading "Sunday Supplements"
cannelloni was very successful! and the asparagus is making an appearance in the market. green barley risotto with peas and asparagus was the consequence. no other photos of an actual life lived ofc. oh and an extremely successful pommes boulangères – the best thing I’ve eaten this year I think?