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Category Archives: Literature
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!
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. Athens, 26 January 2015 HELLAS “The world’s great age begins anew, The golden years return, The … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Literature, Luxembourg, Politics
Tagged Achaemenids, Aeschylus, Alexis Tsipras, Andreas Papandreou, ANEL, Evangelos Venizelos, Felipe González, George Papandreous, Jean-Claude Juncker, KKE, Lula da Silva, Marathon, Mitterand, New Democracy, Pasok, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Syntagma, Syriza, William Wordsworth
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Culture of Capital v. Capital of Culture
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. 4 January 2015 WORD ON THE WATER Long-suffering readers of this blog will know that: (a) … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Globalisation, Literature, UK
Tagged floating bookshop, Paddington Central, Small is beautiful, Word on the Water
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When Adam delved and Eve span
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. 6 September 2014 A COMMUNIST PRIEST IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND “When Adam delved, and Eve span, who … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, France, Literature, Politics, Religion, UK
Tagged Adam and Eve, Communism, Jean Froissart, John Ball, John Stow, Karl Marx, Wat Tyler
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Don’t fix it if it’s not broken!
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. 22 January 2014 Children from two to ten years old should “feel the texture of a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ireland, Literature, Uncategorized
Tagged Book of Kells, Clare Daly, Ruairí Quinn, Trinity College Dublin
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Crocodile tears
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. 4 January 2014 я сижу на шее у человека , задавил его и требую , чтобы … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Literature, Politics, Russia, USA
Tagged "What Then Must We Do?", crocodile tears, Leo Tolstoy, morality, oppression, serfs, Tsarist Russia
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Sweet dreams
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. 3 January 2014 Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow. When I woke … Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged comedy, dreams, hunger, marshmallows, pillows, Tommy Cooper
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Authors attack Big Brother
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. 11 December 2013 A STAND FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE Hundreds of Writers sign Appeal … Continue reading
White horses and pink elephants
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. 6 December 2013 The white horse you see in the park could be a zebra synchronised … Continue reading
Posted in China, Literature, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged A white horse is not a horse, Anne Jellicoe, China, Kung-sun Lung, logic, Ming jia, pink elephants, sophistry, zebra
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Holland as I remember it
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. 2 December 2013 Herinnering aan Holland Denkend aan Holland zie ik brede rivieren traag door oneindig … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Netherlands
Tagged Dutch literature, Dutch poetry, Hendrik Marsman, Herinnering aan Holland, Holland, Netherlands
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Things haven’t changed much
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. 30 November 2013 “I had much the same experience as many other young men. I expected, … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Literature, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Athens, Classical Greece, Committee of Thirty, homo politicus, Plato, Plato's Seventh Letter, Socrates
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