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, […]
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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 moreGurdjieff 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 […]
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