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It is a very windy document. It would have been much better at half the length. It's repetive, and consciously so. From the opening chapter: Although each chapter will have its own subject and specific approach, it will also take up and re-examine important questions previously dealt with…. These questions will not be dealt with once…
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I don’t know anything about Canadian politics or the real significance of the newly-elected premier. But this piece by David Warren says some insightful things that are as applicable to our political culture as to our neighbor’s. Perhaps I should explain what I mean by “drivel.” I could write, “lies,” but these are only possible…
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More Chris Rea, who is very under-rated. I admit I don't really understand what this song is about. The artwork shown in this video is relevant in part because the album cover has one of the same artist's pictures, and also because in the full version of the title song there is a sort of…
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When Craig Burrell wrote about Thomas Mann for Week 32 of the 52 Authors series, I decided that the next fiction I read would be Doctor Faustus. I had been irrationally prejudiced against Mann, somehow imagining his books to be very dull novels of not very interesting ideas. But Craig made him, and especially this book,…
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Not Hobbes's book, but a recent movie from Russia, by director Andrey Zvyagintsev, whose name I would probably recognize if I were more knowledgeable about contemporary film-making. I only know about it because my late friend Robert recommended it. He described it as "a Bergmanesque masterpiece," and I regret that I didn't have a chance to…
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19th Century metal.
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