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…
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 Here is an unpublished piece by George entitled “Politics, Popular Government and Regimes of Liberty: Michael Oakeshott on Representative Democracy”.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
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Rolling Stone Little Richard. If it hadn’t have been for him, I probably wouldn’t have gone into music. When I was nine and first saw Little Richard in a film that played around town—I think it was probably Girl Can’t Help It —seeing those four saxophonists onstage, it was like, “I want to be in…
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I bought and read a treatise on psychoanalysis, just to make his task easier. It’s not hard to understand, but it’s very boring. consciousnessItalo Svevophilosophical literatureTriesteZeno’s Conscience
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What do you seek — God? you ask with a smile. I hesitate to answer, since all other Americans have settled the matter for themselves and to give such an answer would amount to setting myself a goal which everyone else has reached — and therefore raising a question in which no one has the…
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