November 2010
45 posts
“Jim on the bridge was penetrated by the great certitude of unbounded safety and...”
– Lord Jim
“As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a...”
– Christopher Hitchens in Hitch-22
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there's a leak in the roof that needs fixin'
Many modern thinkers believe the benchmark of a successful democracy is the presence of some kind of deliberative decision-making process. This seems almost trivial when compared against the model of democracy, the Athenian polis. But direct democracy in the Athenian style being impractical, and universal suffrage necessary for any democracy’s legitimacy, modern governments are faced with a...
A NEW NADIR →
trying some new things out on my home page
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Sugar Minott - Love and Understanding
I am a model. I pose in the photos you see when you walk through airport terminals. My trenchcoat billows in the wind behind me as I walk with another model down the beach. The grin on my companion’s face conveys happiness despite the clouds on the horizon. I enjoy seeing my own face as I travel between gates, transferring from flight to flight (I always fly business class).
My favorite...
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“At Oreanda they sat on a seat not far from the church, looked down at the sea,...”
– The Lady With The Dog
Arthur Verocai - Sylvia
Listen to this one with...
a bit of blockage
I know I’m tired of the unending stream of India photos, but for now that’s all I’m capable of. Between this cold and the wrench of uninspiration that seems to be pressing on my temples I really can’t be bothered to write anything, much less write anything about “topics of interest”. All the writing I see is sponsored by a Vodka company or something these days,...
WatchChanan Khan Manganiyar. One of my folk music heroes.
about that photo everyone is reblogging.
It’s a scan of a postcard I purchased at the Hunterian museum, London, a fantastic collection of medical aberrations and other curiosities from several hundred years of surgical exploration in London. Please visit and donate to the museum. It’s right across Lincolns Inn Fields from Sir John Soanes’ house, which is another worthy visit.
