- Reading (25 Dec 04)
I'm using some of the summer holidays to sort out my books after the chaos of the move to a new house. Every now and then I unearth a small ...
- Reading for 50,000 bedtimes (11 Nov 04)
Looking for a really big read? Try the the new Oxford edition of the Dictionary of National Biography just 60 volumes about 50 000 articles and 60 000 pages. A ...
- Cursed profit (04 Nov 04)
As part of a piece called "Dedication" from his Permit me voyage (Yale 1934) James Agee wrote what must be one of the most horrendous curses ever written against those ...
- Notes on "True Union in the Body" (02 Nov 04)
Notes on True Union in the Body? Some time ago the ' Anglican Institute ' distributed the small book True union in the body? to every Anglican bishop. The Institute ...
- Agee (16 Sep 04)
In an earlier post I remarked that I was attracted by the lyrics of the song "Sure on this shining night" the third of Four songs Op. 13 by Samuel ...
- Awaiting his return (18 Apr 04)
James is away for a couple of weeks and the separation feels strange. An unexpected absence of only an hour can sometimes be scary.PauseYou are late coming home To the ...
- Vasco's rest (01 Apr 04)
Hopefully copyright will allow me to quote this delightful though earnest piece from The Curly Pyjama Letters by Michael Leunig (Viking Penguin 2001) and encourage you to buy the book. ...
- Nowhere but the reverence of the heart (19 Mar 04)
Over the west side of this mountain that's lyrebird country. I could go down there they say in the early morning and I'd see them I'd hear them.Ten years and ...
- Exit strategy? (17 Mar 04)
At election time in Australia as well as in a certain large Pacific neighbour ... from Iraq Afghanistan East Timor the Solomons and New Guinea . . . Next year ...
- Hints and guesses (04 Mar 04)
Men's curiosity searches past and future And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time is an occupation for the saint - ...
- Courage humans! (04 Mar 04)
"Courage men! The human beings may yet defeat the politicians." Thus Alistair Cooke ended the foreword to Talk about America: 1951-1968. This week he announced his retirement at age 95 ...
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