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La crainte du temps perdu
While reading Mary Read’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, I was transported to my brief time at St. John’s College. A decade ago I struggled to bridge the intellectual, cultural and ideological gap I perceived between a Hellenic and a Christian Western civilisation. While I endeavoured to span the chasm, my cohorts made the transition […]
On Last.fm
I have been scrobbling since 2005. I have never used Last.fm to discover new music or exploited its social network features. Instead, I use Last.fm to log the music tracks I play. It is an unobtrusive process, for the most part. And ever since I stopped using iTunes entirely and switched to Spotify, the activity of tracking my […]
Portobello
We have moved. Again. We relocated from the ostensibly working-class Dunedin suburb of Ocean Grove to the village of Portobello. This settlement is halfway up the western side of the Otago Peninsula, nestled around the eponymous Portobello Peninsula, which juts out into the Otago Harbour. We have exchanged the sound of the Pacific Ocean for […]
on genius
On the discordance between the artist and his creation: But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them …. Genius consist[s] in reflection power and not in the intrinsic quality of the scene reflected.1 […]