2004 commonplace book

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1. december 2004

   • George Carey on Christianity as a philosophy

2. november 2004

   • Sartre on victory and defeat
   • Leo Bersani on the culture of redemption
   • John Lanchester on British public culture

3. august 2004

   • counting without names for numbers

4. may 2004

   • do monopolies innovate?
   • David Hockney on the faked Daily Mirror Iraq photographs
   • John Brady Kiesling on a US exit strategy from Iraq
   • F Scott Fitzgerald on 'The Great Gatsby'
   • Azar Nafisi on 'perfectly equipped failures'
   • Philip Roth on how little we know
   • Philip Roth on death at work on a perfect day
   • Werner Pelz & self-justification
   • Philip Roth on the human stain
   • Philip Roth on the Adagio from Mahler's Third Symphony
   • Philip Roth's vision of a certain kind of 'purity' at the end of 'The Human Stain'
   • Azar Nafisi on Nabokov's 'other world'
   • Azar Nafisi on a generation with no past
   • Azar Nafisi on public mourning in Iran
   • Vygotsky and memory
   • Ulric Neisser & memory as recognition & anticipation

5. april 2004

   • Carol Shields on waking up at the age of forty-five
   • Carol Shields on a party hitting problems
   • Philip Roth on men talking about sex
   • Philip Roth on permanence and transience
   • Philip Roth on Coleman Silk after the death of his father
   • Philip Roth on how accidental the inescapable appears
   • Proust on the need for art to be nurtured in the heart
   • Proust on the hidden life of Princess Guermantes and her guests
   • an Anglican report on moral intuition and Scripture
   • Carol Shields on work and the soul
   • Carol Shields on a wagging horn strung between the legs
   • Carol Shields' Larry on middle age
   • Carol Shields on the care given to coma patients
   • 'Love Won Out'
   • Rowan Williams on God and creation
   • Rowan Williams on God's love for that which is not God
   • John Updike on divorcees in small towns
   • John Updike's Darryl van Horne on spring
   • John Updike on making room for the new
   • John Updike on American consumerism
   • John Updike's Alexandra Spofford, crying at the loss of babies who became children
   • John Updike on women as male commodities
   • John Updike on the imprint of the stars on a star-gazer
   • John Updike on overnight blizzards as a photographic darkroom
   • John Updike on Eastwick's communal underworld
   • John Updike on magic, hate and love
   • John Updike on Bach's Second Cello Suite
   • Proust on the dangers of excitement
   • Proust on more glasses of port
   • Machiavelli on the renewal of religion
   • Doug Wead on George W Bush's evangelicalism
   • Proust on the real Albertine and the imagined ones
   • Proust on wisdom
   • Proust on the delayed recognition of pleasure
   • Proust on the beauty in everyday 'still life'
   • Proust comparing pleasures to photographs
   • Proust on our knowledge of others
   • Proust on friendship as a distraction from internal growth
   • Proust on the way the settings for our pleasures fail to reveal their secrets to others
   • Graham Swift's detective on our being hunters
   • Graham Swift on a policemans' retirement
   • Ian McEwan on beginnings as artifice
   • Ian McEwan on foreplay
   • Ian McEwan on language and thought
   • Rowan Williams on God in the heart of the familiar
   • Rowan Williams on the eye's journey around an icon
   • Rowan Williams on self-sufficiency
   • Rowan Williams on the God who identifies himself in relation to people
   • Proust on the recluse and the crowd
   • Graham Swift on the need to peer out at a different world
   • Weber, Schiller and disenchantment
   • Charles Rosen on tradition and innovation
   • Rowan Williams on love and distance

6. march 2004

   • God's love & the synoptic gospels
   • the closure of factories by multinational companies
   • London's ethnic diversity
   • Oliver Sacks on perceptual discontinuity
   • Walter Brueggemann on revelation
   • Jacques Derrida on monsters and pets

7. february 2004

   • George Steiner on Hermann Cohen and the diaspora
   • Steven Weinberg on the need to waste time
   • Charles Taylor on the romantic roots of May 1968
   • Nadine Gordimer on new technology & the book
   • Clarissa in 'The Hours' on the end of the day
   • Virginia Woolf in 'The Hours' on the space that life fills
   • Michael Cunningham on confidence & desirability
   • Richard in 'The Hours' peopling the world with extreme figures
   • Clarissa in 'The Hours' on kindness vs. wit
   • Clarissa in 'The Hours' on the secret name of everything in the world
   • Microsoft Outlook inbox repair tool
   • backing up .pst files
   • surreptitious evangelism on the internet

8. january 2004

   • Jack Scholfield on open source software
   • secure biometric data
   • Elizabeth Moss Kanter on powerlessness
   • backing up electronic address books
   • a joke about a priest and a traffic warden