2005 commonplace book

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1. 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

2. 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

3. february 2005

   • religious humility (the bishop, the priest and the peasant)

4. january 2005

   • the role played by Ukrainian intelligence officers after last November's election