2005 commonplace book
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2005
july 2005
graphic novels & films
Octavio Paz on power relations absorbed into personal relations
Alan F Segal on the afterlife in the First Temple period
Ian Stewart on sand oceans
Maths and the discovery of DNA
june 2005
Lawrence Durrell on passion which says nothing
a similie from Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell on flavour without character
Lawrence Durrell on being careful with God
John H Pryor, the winds and the frontiers of Islam
Thaddeus Birchard on religious psychotherapy clients
Robert Alter and the translation of the Hebrew scriptures
Robert Alter on bland Bible translations
Robert Alter on the Hebrew of the Old Testament
Laurence Durrell on the illusions of the dying Cohen in
The Alexandria Quartet
Laurence Durrell on what remains when we die
D H Lawrence on the seductions of the English countryside
Peter France on the salons as a model for contemporary conversation
Henry Perowne's mother and her swimming in Ian McEwan's "Saturday"
Ian McEwan on tyrants as children
Ian McEwan on passions needing space for their expression
Ian McEwan on the exposure of weakness in games
Ian McEwan on the human race as orphans
Ian McEwan on slowing down to read poetry
Ian McEwan on the smile of a self-conscious liar
Ian McEwan on the luxury of a shower
Ian McEwan on moments of magic in music
Ian McEwan on how easily the trappings of a lifetime can be junked
Harry Mount on boredom
J. M. Coetzee on Daniel Defoe's use of the particular
Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and ‘innerness’
the development of formal proof
Ian McEwan on Saul Bellow's Herzog
Saul Bellow's Herzog on what it means to be a man
Peter Ridell on post-war British general election results
the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy on film
J. M. Coetzee on American curiosity about Psyche
J. M. Coetzee on the loss of the gods
J. M. Coetzee on sentences hinging on the word 'because'
J. M. Coetzee on seeing the pattern
Simon Hoggart on what Tony Blair's eyes reveal
David Schiff on Shostakovitch's Fourth Symphony
Merold Westphal's appropriation of postmodern thought
the future of radio
the French sociologist Raymond Boudon
Michel Foucault and negative theology
Ian McEwan on modern professional life
the invention of velcro
Ian McEwan on the risks of air travel
Daniel Gilbert on flourishing in difficult circumstances
Levinas and the religious prohibition of images
Paul Ricoeur on the fullness of language
Dan R. Stiver on reader-response theory
Dan R. Stiver on Gadamer's view of the humanities
The loneliness of Justine in the
Alexandra Quartet
Guido Anselmi in
8½
on choosing one thing
february 2005
religious humility (the bishop, the priest and the peasant)
january 2005
the role played by Ukrainian intelligence officers after last November's election
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