Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 

 23 April 2012

I have never learned to regard myself as a “member of society”. For me there have always been two entities – myself and the world – and the normal relation between the two has been hostile.

George Gissing (1857-1903). English novelist. The extract is from his novel, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, published in 1903.

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 You might perhaps care to view some of our earlier posts.  For instance:

 1. Why? or How? That is the question (3 Jan 2012)

2. Das Vierte Reich/The Fourth Reich (6 Feb 2012)

3. The shoddiest possible goods at the highest possible prices (2 Feb 2012)

4. Where’s the beef? Ontology and tinned meat (31 Jan 2012)

5. What would Gandhi have said? (30 Jan 2012)

Every so often we shall change this sample of previously published posts.

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