Sunday, 13 February 2011

I met Che Guevara sharp as a cat

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I met Che Guevara sharp as a cat in Cuba, and Guy Burgess swollen with drink and self-reproach in Moscow, and Kim Philby, whom I thought I c...
Thursday, 10 February 2011

The place and function of rhetoric in the public life of the Empire had changed

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The place and function of rhetoric in the public life of the Empire had changed: between the reign of Augustus and the end of the second cen...
Friday, 4 February 2011

In Paris do they always have the true answer?

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"Therefore you don't have a single answer to your questions?" "Adso, if I did I would teach theology in Paris." ...
Thursday, 3 February 2011

Bad Table manners have broken up more marriages than infidelity

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Breaking with convention, I watched Gigi last night. There were some fantastic lines (the script is here ). Here my favourites: Aunt Alic...
Thursday, 6 January 2011

Geraint automatically sympathised with anyone who was not shouting

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Geraint automatically sympathised with anyone who was not shouting. He admired Basil's self-restraint. He loved the sheen on his waistco...
Monday, 20 December 2010

In the city that made suicide an art

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In the city [Vienna] that made suicide an art, [Otto] Weininger's was a masterpiece, and it made a posthumous bestseller of his doctoral...
Thursday, 9 December 2010

Nature is what makes one human or not

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Nature is what makes one human or not. Christ has a completely human nature. Therefore Christ is completely human. One indication of the mis...