Phil May
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Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (3)
15.4.1890. My father dies. L.C. For those who do not know, those last two letters do not stand for Lower Case, but for Last Cigarette. This is an annotation I find in a volume by Ostwald on positivistic philosophy, with which, full of hope, I have spent many hours and never understood. No one would…
The Moviegoer: quotes (4)
The boy has done it! He has won the title to his own existence, as plenary an existence now as Holden’s, by refusing to be stampeded like the ladies from Hattiesburg. He is a citizen like Holden; two men of the world they are. All at once the world is open to him. Nobody threatens…
Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism
Just published. anti-rationalismEdmund BurkeEnlightenmentEric VoegelinFriedrich HayekFriedrich NietzscheGene CallahanKenneth McIntyreKierkegaardMichael Oakeshottrationalism
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (3)
Is it part of the police department to harass me when this is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world? . . . This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians, all of whom are only too well protected…
Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (2)
If I had stopped smoking, would I have become the strong, ideal man I expected to be? Perhaps it was this suspicion that bound me to my habit, for it is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. I venture this hypothesis to explain my youthful weakness,…
The Moviegoer: quotes (3)
Truthfully, it is the fear of exposing my own ignorance which constrains me from mentioning the object of my search. For, to begin with, I cannot even answer this, the simplest and most basic of all questions: Am I, in my search, a hundred miles ahead of my fellow Americans or a hundred miles behind…
Ian Dury
Born on this date and it’s just over twenty years since his death. Here’s a decent enough write-up from ten years ago. Shortly before his death in March 2000, Paul McCartney paid him a visit. It was “like having the Queen Mother coming round for tea,” he told his wife. Ian Dury at the Dentist…
Politics, Popular Government and Regimes of Liberty: Michael Oakeshott on Representative Democracy
George Feaver: born and died on May 12th. Here is an unpublished piece by George entitled “Politics, Popular Government and Regimes of Liberty: Michael Oakeshott on Representative Democracy”. democracyGeorge FeaverMichael OakeshottPolitical philosophy
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (2)
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