This comes from the evening exchange on Sunday 23 March 1986, at Newport. The young man who spoke said that he hadn’t liked the job he was doing, which was […]
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Month: August 2016
Mr Adie: No Effort Is Worthless
This is from a weekend work of Sunday 23 February 1986 (it is not in his book) In the evening, a woman spoke about how she had been tired. […]
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Elizabeth Bennett: My Life, J.G.Bennett and G.I. Gurdjieff
My Life, J.G. Bennett and G.I. Gurdjieff: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Bennett, J.G. Bennett Foundation, Petersham MA, 2016 This interesting book, really a collection of chapters, is welcome, not least […]
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Themes I, by Annie-Lou Staveley
Part One: Mrs Staveley Mrs Staveley was an extraordinary woman: there is no doubt about that. I was at her Two Rivers Farm between 1 and 18 January 1996, if […]
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Why I Won’t be Reading Harry Potter and the Pitiless Sequels
I won’t be reading the new Harry Potter book for one simple but sufficient reason: the silliness has long outweighed any sympathy I had for Rowling’s characters. The silliness was […]
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