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La Belle Sauvage #BookofDust #review and my #reading in October

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on October 29, 2017

“But the meaning of a book is never just what the author thinks it is. It’s a great mistake to rely on the author to […]

Posted in Featured | Tagged Book of Dust, CS Lewis, His Dark Materials, Montaigne, Philip Pullman, reading, reading in 2017 | 2 Comments

How to live

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on December 10, 2011

‘Montaigne liked to present himself as an ordinary man, distinguished from others only by his habit of writing things down’. I am halfway through Montaigne’s essays and […]

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"“I dust a bit,” Ignatius told the policeman. “In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” #AConfederacyofDunces #literature #quotes pic.twitter.com/4cZ1…

Added some more reviews by Eric Blair in The Adelphi to my #Orwell collection. darcymoore.net/orwel… pic.twitter.com/HJlK…

Terrifyingly amusing! open.spotify.com/tra…

The Syrian refugee's poem that exposed England's 'joyless' curriculum smh.com.au/world/eur… via @smh

Absolutely superb! I had low expectations but wow - what a great film! twitter.com/onceinho…

September 1, 1939 by Ian Sansom review – a biography of a poem #Auden theguardian.com/book…

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Kappa

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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The Best Australian Essays 2015

The Best Australian Essays 2015

by Geordie Williamson

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Dæmon Voices #review and my #reading in November →

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Philip Pullman’s Dæmon Voices – Essays on Storytelling is pleasurable reading for English teachers, students, writers and anyone who loves stories. Best known for the trilogy, His Dark Materials, Pullman […]

A Wider World View: India-Australia Exchange →

Posted in Education

Cultural exchange is a very important value for our school. “A Wider World View @DHS” is a broad program encouraging and nurturing intercultural understanding, school exchanges and online connectivity, using […]

Leading and Blogging #IWBNET09 Presentation →

Posted in Professional development, Web 2.0

Apologies for the font problem. Slideshare didn’t like that one obviously.

‘The Two Cultures Problem’ →

Posted in Digital life, Uncategorized

I highly recommend you watch this great talk by Bill Thompson on “The Two Cultures Problem”: OpenTech 2009. It is an exploration of the great divide between those who read ‘code’ […]

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