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Philosophy as Prophylaxis: Always Look on the Gray Side of Life
(Good evening Mr.Waldheim and Pontiff how are you…?) Today’s Thought For The Day (Quote Of The Day) comes from John Gray, as expressed in his anthology of essays, ‘Gray’s Anatomy’. ‘Tis a pity it is...
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And I never buy umbrellas
(The Lady Lucie: Žižkov bartender) Here’s another Thought For The Day (lifted from a chat I had with a Prague friend): “The weather will do whatever it wills – but as long as pubs have roofs, I’m cool.”
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More Wile Weiner nonsense (or: A deep suspicion of gravity)
(Is it a bird” Is it a prick? No, it’s the Wile Weiner twins…!) I just saw another Weiner story in the Washington Post: ‘Weiner planning leave of absence for treatment’. Which is as far as my...
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Simply to see
Today, I’ll be silent. Apart from this short introduction to today’s Thought For The Day ( or Quote Of The Day), by John Gray, as delivered in his collection of essays, ‘Gray’s Anatomy’: “Other...
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Nature versus Nurture: The history
Just a quick (or fast food) Thought For The Day post: ‘All history is nurture getting fucked over by human nature.’
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Stubborn as those garbage bags that Time cannot decay
Yesterday, I was walking home, a handful of beers & Fernets richer (or poorer, if you like.) It was raining softly, which gave me the chance to use my new, incredibly red umbrella for the first...
View ArticleShakespeare’s monkeys (and flying cows)
Okay, I’m in a bit of a hurry here, so we’ll keep it short – with another one of those Thoughts For The Day posts, this one inspired (loosely) by Shakespeare’s monkeys. Yes, you do know. It’s a famous...
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From Aden to Afghanistan: In the alphabet of lessons learned from history...
I’m too busy preparing an Indian meal for four of my friends (who will arrive in a bit more than three hours and will demand to be fed), so I don’t have much time left for reading and commenting on...
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Dickinson & Coleridge (or: Constancy to an Ideal Delusion)
I’m slowly working my way through Helen Vendler’s ‘Dickinson – Selected Poems and Commentaries’ and enjoying most of it. (More about that in a following post.) Discussing Dickinson’s poem 1447 (The...
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Chrostopher Hitchens: Still a voice to be reckoned with
I just came upon a beautiful article by the late Christopher Hitchens, in Vanity Fair. I will give you three short excerpts but go read the whole thing here. The first bit I quote is CH on his...
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