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To Pursue Beauty to its Lair
Arundhati Roy "The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and … [Continue reading]
Shakespeare’s Tempest
We've just watched the sheerly lovely Tempest at Wadham College, Oxford, a production of The Oxford Shakespeare Company. Clearly enunciated, the poetry brought to life, even though there was too much imported slapstick for my liking and not … [Continue reading]
Thomas Cromwell, Both a Wily Unscrupulous Politician, and a true Reformer.
Roy and I took a 20 week course in The History of Christianity at Oxford University this year. We were considering Thomas Cromwell whom the lecturer, Ken Barnes, presented as a true believer in the theological principles of the Reformation. I was … [Continue reading]
On Watching Shakespeare’s Tempest
We've just watched the sheerly lovely Tempest at Wadham College, Oxford, a production of The Oxford Shakespeare Company. Clearly enunciated, the poetry brought to life, even though there was too much imported slapstick for my liking and not enough … [Continue reading]
8 Writing Tips from C.S. Lewis
8 Writing Tips from C.S. LewisPosted by Donald L. Hughes in Craft of Writing on April 20, 2010 | 21 responsesIn 1959 an American schoolgirl wrote to C. S. Lewis asking him for advice on the craft of writing. He sent her a list of eight … [Continue reading]
The Verger by Somerset Maugham
My father told me this story when I was a teenager. He had a splendid memory, and had probably read it 10-20 years earlier. And now, decades later, I have discovered it on the web, and it is just as he told it to me, and I remembered it. … [Continue reading]
Joseph Conrad on The Writer’s Task
Joseph ConradHis task was ”by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you see--it is, before all, to make you feel .” Bookmark this on Delicious … [Continue reading]
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