This is from the meeting of Tuesday, 11 October 1983, at Newport. The second question of the evening came from Annabelle. I have not even tried to accurately render the […]
Read more
Author: Joseph Azize
Dithering
Formulation and Dithering It is a beautiful, entertaining word: “dithering”; quite one of the modest glories of the English language. You could spend the afternoon in nature, on a […]
Read more
Formulations
Formulations play an enormous part in our lives. They are necessary: whenever we speak we use formulations: “Good morning”, “I am …”, “Would you like …”, “Can you tell me […]
Read more
Mrs Adie and the “Rum Customer”
Part One This question and answer come from Tuesday 9 March 1982, at Newport. The “question”, almost a manifesto, took around thirty minutes. The basic message of this marathon effort […]
Read more
Pre-publication Review – “A Child of the Sun” by Pierce Butler
A Child of the Sun, Pierce Butler, Beech Hill, Mount Desert ME, 2016 (I have been given a pre-publication of this book: it is not slated for release until […]
Read more
The Bride of Lammermoor
One well educated person I know considers The Bride of Lammermoor to have been Sir Walter Scott’s greatest novel. I think it is a great novel, and an underestimated one, […]
Read more
Sugar is a Plague
I am absolutely serious. Sugar is a plague. To take just one example, on 20 February 2016, Australia newspapers reported that “Children as young as five are having all their […]
Read more
Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope
Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope: Notes of Meetings in Paris and New York, 1935-1939 and 1948-1949, Book Studio, London, 2012 271pp. comprising a chronology from 1865 to […]
Read more
Mr Adie on Bankruptcy and Catastrophe in general
This is from the meeting of Wednesday 2 April 1986, in response to a man who was on the brink of bankruptcy. Mr Adie said: “You tell yourself that it […]
Read more
Farwell, Keith Emerson, and may you find peace
The recent death by suicide of Keith Emerson on 10 March 2016 was an ugly tragedy. One of the greatest keyboard players to record in the last fifty years, a […]
Read more
