Tag: Robert MacFarlane

#MyHouseofSky #JABaker #review and my #reading in December

Posted by | Published on December 19, 2017

“There is no mysterious essence we can call a ‘place’. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber […] 

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May 2015: My Reading

Posted by | Published on June 2, 2015

Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we have left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates. Robert MacFarlane […] 

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Orwell’s Scottish Ancestry and Slavery*  →

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How much did Orwell know about his Scottish ancestry? His well-known prejudice against the Scots conceivably emanated from the distaste he felt for the way wealth was accrued by his […] 

#UtopiaforRealists #review and my #reading in May  →

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Consider this: The word utopia means both “good place” and “no place.” What we need are alternative horizons that spark the imagination. And I do mean horizons in the plural; […] 

Orwell’s Streptomycin  →

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“I am a lot better, but I had a bad fortnight with the secondary effects of the streptomycin. I suppose with all these drugs it’s rather a case of sinking […] 

#TheirBrilliantCareers #review and my #reading in September  →

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“Actually, most of my previous publications listed in ‘Their Brilliant Careers’ are made up! It’s all part of the joke. The only real one is ‘The Weight of a Human […] 

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