- Has become untethered
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A couple of snippets on religion / secularism and US politics from recent reading that I wanted to save somewhere, and in public seems as good a place as any.
First, Barack Obama (who I’m apparently closest to out of all the presidential candidates), quoted by David Hollinger in a review of The Stillborn God (subscribers only) by Mark Lilla in the London Review of Books, 24 January 2008:
In Periodicals on 7 February 2008. 2 comments. Permalink
- Félix Fénéon's worthy material
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Kim recently started putting putting pithy bits of Oscar Wilde through Twitter. Which reminded me that I’d been thinking Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines would be ideal Twitter fodder. (Maybe we have some guilt about wasting time with modern communications and this makes us want to better ourselves by squeezing worthy material into it.)
In Periodicals on 24 January 2008. Add a comment. Permalink
- Two NYRB notes
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A couple of turned-down corners from recent book review reading. First, in ‘Is the UN Doomed?’ (subscribers only) in the New York Review of Books, 15 February 2007, Tony Judt briefly mentions the costs of the UN’s international peacekeeping efforts: “in 1993, peacekeeping expenses alone exceeded the UN’s entire annual budget by over 200 percent.” Which seems like crazy money until you read the related footnote:
In Periodicals on 9 April 2007. 1 comment. Permalink
- LRB notes
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If I come across a passage in a London Review of Books article I want to keep, I turn down the corner and tear the edge of the page in line with the paragraphs in question. Saves finding a pen. Here’s a little backlog of three passages I wanted to save…
In Periodicals on 8 March 2007. Add a comment. Permalink
- New York Review of Books, 27 April 2006
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From 'The Global Delusion' by John Gray:
…immigrants still make up only around 3 percent of the world's population today, whereas in 1913 it was about 10 percent.
In Periodicals on 12 June 2006. Add a comment. Permalink
- London Review of Books, 20 April 2006
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I'd really like to read a book about revolutions. Describing how a variety of major popular uprisings have happened; what sparked them off, who took part, what worked, what didn't, what lasted. Are there common factors among them? If you know of such a book, do let me know. In the meantime, the current London Review of Books has 'Martial Art' (subscribers only again) by Bruce Robbins, a review of Science of Science and Reflexivity by Pierre Bourdieu, which contains these two paragraphs:
In Periodicals on 5 May 2006. Add a comment. Permalink
- New York Review of Books, 9 February 2006
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I circled a lot of 'Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death' by Garry Wills, a review of Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter. I keep finding myself getting intriguied by morals and ethics and would like to read more about them (so at least I could tell if there's a difference between morals and ethics). On with the lengthy quoting.
In Periodicals on 5 May 2006. Add a comment. Permalink
- New York Review of Books, 12 January 2006
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From 'Salvation Through Laughter' (subscribers only) by Charles Simic, on Witold Gombrowicz.
…writing about existentialism, he [Gombrowicz] had this to say:
It seems impossible to meet the demands of Dasein and simultaneously have coffee and croissants for an evening snack. To fear nothingness, but to fear the dentist more. To be consciousness, which walks around in pants and talks on the telephone. To be responsibility, which runs little shopping errands downtown. To bear the weight of significant being, to install the world with meaning and then return the change from ten pesos.
In Periodicals on 4 May 2006. 1 comment. Permalink
- Guardian Review, 19 March 2005
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Continuing the Ian McEwan theme, here he is in the Guardian with a bit about travelling to the arctic on a boat full of artists. I love this rather long excerpt, which I must remember when I get annoyed with people who don't sit in their assigned seats at the cinema; a simple wrong that ends up with a theatre full of grumpy people:
In Periodicals on 20 March 2005. Add a comment. Permalink
- London Review of Books, 5 March 2005
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An excerpt from Christopher Tayler's review of Ian McEwan's Saturday in the London Review of Books, as I love Ramachandran's and Lodge's thoughts here:
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- London Review of Books, 5 August 2004
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- London Review of Books, 22 July 2004
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- London Review of Books, 8 July 2004
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