diasyrmus

Looking across from my train at Blackfriars Station, down along the Thames to the silhouette of Tower Bridge and the city around it, already in the early morning beginning to bake in another heatwave at the end of a completely rainless summer, I find myse…

« Celui qui se perd dans sa passion perd moins que celui qui perd sa passion » Augustin mais pourquoi pas tous les deux ?

feel for the guy checking out maslow’s hierarchy of needs next to me on the train this morning. hang in there buddy.

A week where I hit a wall in terms of stress and fatigue, so that Saturday was a complete write off, and my mental acuity is so poor I’m wondering whether it warrants medical assessment.

Concepts do many things at once, but men do much the same thing as their fellows Chapter3: The Coming of the Other, Plough, Sword and Book – Ernest Gellner found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop vid…

An independent image that stalks into the world like a new monster Frank Auerbach Detail of cat. 16 – Frank Auerbach (from The Charcoal Heads catalogue accompanying the Courtauld exhibition) And in those voices there was a gloomy desire for vengeance… The…

Though inadvertently here at the height of the tulip season, an international event it turns out.

Reading Plough, Sword and Book by Ernest Gellner, I enjoyed the ‘matrix’ of conflict and agreement between rationality or the observed world and maintaining the social norm in ‘pre-rational’ societies – societies of the plough in the framework of the book.

boiled beef and carrots living no sort of quality of intellectual life at the moment but food doesn’t care about that. as more than one person has said boiled beef and carrots is about the closest you get to something pot-au-feu in food from this archipel…

cannelloni was very successful!