2007 commonplace book

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1. august 2007

   • W. H. Auden on the tension in poetry between truth & beauty
   • paintings of Ambroise Vollard

2. july 2007

   • how the Web is transforming mapmaking
   • Dreamweaver's treatment of hand-typed code

3. june 2007

   • Anthony Gormley on sculpture
   • Richard Rorty on the notion of the mind as a mirror
   • the Babylonian Talmud on Jesus
   • A tale from Sarajevo from Dubravka Ugresic
   • Lucy Winkett's recommendation of Philip Newell's ‘Earthful of Glory’
   • the renaissance in French breadmaking
   • How many friends do we have?
   • Rudolf Bultmann on the New Testament and existentialist philosophy
   • John Macquarrie on Christian apologetics
   • John Macquarrie on the role of the Word for Bultmann
   • John Macquarrie on the empirical in the study of human nature
   • John Macquarrie on his debt to Heidegger
   • John Macquarrie on his account of revelation
   • Albert Camus on a man's work
   • David Crystal's collective nouns

4. may 2007

   • Robert Snell on Renoir as a pillar of modernism
   • Robert Snell on the impact on Impressionism of the new Paris and the new French Republic
   • Graham Swift on what parents want from their children
   • Edmund Burke and the French Revolution as one of doctrine and dogma

5. april 2007

   • Karl Miller on Ian McEwan's novel ‘On Chesil Beach’

6. march 2007

   • Paul Simms on symbolic and semantic meaning in Paul Ricoeur
   • Peter Ackroyd on Roland Barthes' ‘A Lover's Discourse’

7. february 2007

   • Timothy Cavendish in Cloud Atlas on growing old
   • Toby Lichtig on UrbanDictionary.com

8. january 2007

   • Longfellow, Walter Benjamin and translation
   • Teresa of Avila on seeking God within ourselves