Tag: Life
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‘Beneath the Gravel Weight of Stars’ & the Beat mythology of the supertramp
What songs sing the sorrow of homelessness from Ginsberg’s metaphoric hydrogen jukebox? Such mythology of the heavenly liberated hobo is often drawn from, for example, W.H. Davies (1871-1940) – the original supertramp. Davies, Newport, Wales-born wanderer of America, who famously settled in Gloucestershire, was frowned upon by Muse Colony of Frost (1874-1963), Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938),…
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Life isn’t worth Living
Review of the novel ‘The Hermit’ by Eugene Ionesco One of the most famous philosophical maxim’s is ‘The unexamined life is not worth living (1)’. Absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco’s only novel ‘The Hermit’ (1973) (2) is the absolute embodiment of this aphorism, albeit the conclusion presented being that, actually, life isn’t worth living examined or not.…
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REVIEW: Somebody has to make the poison gas.
‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ is also a deeply humane book. It takes the concept of a looking at man through the mirror of an alien point of view. But that alienation is one many of us feel. We feel it when we are teenagers and when we are alone in a crowd in…
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Coalfaces: back to 1970’s Wales
Unlike the immediacy of photojournalism, the photo essay requires a photographer to immerse himself within his subject’s community. To even hope of capturing a real sense of social documentary, he must mine the spirit of a place and that of its people. Only the best photographers achieve this. Fewer still can present art over mere…
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Why Concert Films will always be Boring
Last night, as I watched probably one of the best concert films I’ve ever seen it struck me just how boring they are.
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Through a Glass Darkly
On the face of it absolutism in its rawest form doesn’t make any sense. But absolutism-lite does. The two are different and the latter is not relativism.
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Adding the ‘th’ to ought
As usual God came up a lot. I guess that’s omnipotence in action. But as an atheist/agnostic, I put that aside, rejecting the very idea of a supernatural moral authority as a premise worthy of pursuit. There was, however, an interesting segment on whether one could logically arise ‘ought’ out of an ‘is’. For example:…
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Review: ‘All Quiet on the Orient Express’
Imagine William Morris writing Emmerdale, all wrapped up in with a Wickerman touch of paranoia.
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Virtue & faith & nature
There is an argument that faith teaches us to be virtuous. But this presupposes that faith is the only means capable of us acquiring virtue.
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