Archive for the ‘Books and Literary Things’ Category
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
February@ the Getty Museum:don't miss..( it's free!)The Mediaeval Bookshelf: From Romance to Astronomy - ( on from January 29th to April 9th 2006)A collection of illuminated manuscripts and books from the 13th to the 15th centuries on a wide range of subjects - including chivalry, fables, science and philosophy. Bibles ...
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Saturday, January 21st, 2006
omniglot: a guide to written language. An interesting site. I found it while I was browsing for information on the occitan language { Provençal is a dialect of Occitan}
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
Susie Orbach highlighted in her 1978 groundbreaking book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' how female identity is 'hopelessly inextricable from body image' ; she's recently updated the introduction to this book indicating how things haven't changed all that much, well actually ..they've been getting much worse.An interesting analysis of ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2005
conspiracy theories: what fun. ( i fancied a breath of fresh air after this bout of attempted sectarian stirring-up) Secret societies, the Illuminati, the Freemasons, kabbalah, yum yum.
of course, Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum is a must on any conspiracy theory fan's reading list.
the quest for secret knowledge ...
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Sunday, November 6th, 2005
Beautiful and haunting; full of pathos.
bonjour tristesse by françoise sagan: written over the summer of 1953.
autobiography: "Avec mon meilluer souvenir" published 1984
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
so - the votes were for Noam Chomsky as "The World's Top Public Intellectual". that's great - { Umberto Eco came in at no. 2 by the way - see the list of full results of the Prospect global intellectuals poll} - and Chomsky is definitely a ...
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Friday, October 14th, 2005
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh. 1928
His first novel.
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