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Thus in these brief weeks Dorothea’s joyous grateful expectation was unbroken, and however her lover might occasionally be conscious of flatness, he could never refer it to any slackening of her affectionate interest. The season was mild enough to encourage the project of extending the wedding journey as far as Rome, and Mr. Casaubon was anxious for this because he…

Part 1 tilting In the Assistens Kirkegård, a cemetery in Copenhagen, a monument to the Russian writer has been raised (Dostojevskij Monument Unveiled in Copenhagen) and they have a facebook page. Hence the repost by an FB friend of something who shared their post from a year ago, in which Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky describes a quote from Don Quixote, itself a metafictonal work,…

No order at all, not even chaos. Not even wrong. Crossposted from substack.com, September 2023. Some re-phrasing. Roger Scruton’s The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures 2010. (London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2014, ISBN 9781472912732). Picked this up when I was writing the other Roger Scruton posts listed below, but only began reading it a couple of days ago after I mined Super…

Originally posted in September 2023 on substack.com. Most notes and quotes from or for Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. ISBN 9780701139988 (No idea what that book is look at this Review article by Gillian Dooley). In mathematics classes they often want you to show your working. I once did a exam as part of…

No/true! — it's not nothing all the way down either. (I started my reading journey with From selfing in worlding to sovereignty. This is my finished up reader’s report.) reading plato in a martian chasm Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher who read Plato with a post-Wittgenstein lens, holding a distrust of recent (post-)structuralist temple-smashing efforts. Though this…

Using use bing chat LLM circa 2023-08-29. Reposted from Substack.com Iris Murdoch and Ursula le Guin having breakfast while sitting under the net where the word for world is forest © 2023 meika loofs samorzewski Searching for: Ursula le Guin birth and death dates Searching for: Ursula le Guin birth and death dates Searching for: Iris Murdoch birth and death dates Searching for: Iris Murdoch…