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As a young person I read some of the writings of Carl Jung. There was a section in it that I couldn’t quite come to grips with about how inanimate objects are living, sentient beings in a living, sentient world. I think that my story demonstrates that my scraps dish and bread board, otherwise perfectly…
It rains in NZ
Let me say that it can rain in New Zealand. But, by prior arrangement with Elizabeth, not where we were. Whilst we were in Auckland in rained in the South Island – one place had Melbourne’s average annual rainfall in one day – and when were in the South Island it rained in Auckland. However…
Culture
.. culture in which process BBC radio and TV played a pivotal role. The preservation of The Arts as a rarefied pleasure reserved for those of noble birth couldn’t be sustained and so the definition of culture had to be broadened, and broadened in such a way as to include and respect the way of…
The Age of Unreason
Dick’s Toolbox cont. .. been blind-sided by A V Jennings. I realise that we are rather recently evolved creatures of imperfect knowledge, but I think that we should be able to do better in our beliefs than be extended versions of the followers of Joanna Southcott. This worthy lady passed away in 1814 after announcing…
Pride & procrastination
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