cheap prednisone 20mg Several years ago one of my college professors asked me if I was reading Clive James. (The implication was that I should be.) I told him I had never heard of him. He was shocked: James was a regular contributor to those learned periodicals that a certain class of people consider obligatory reading for intelligent […]
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Clive James, Cultural Amnesia.
28-Aug-13Singin’ in the Rain.
21-Aug-13http://catherinecrouch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/\"http:\/\/catherinecrouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fSGb9093TZBfG5IuGDnXeBEJF4ARMR-Z3N4_KvnqVkjcjOdyURpxjAxGByPkNVYAcf4pONmk1J-hCzFq1FmMY.jpeg\" Last Saturday there was a party to celebrate the Denning Town Garden, the creation of a group of citizens who wanted to create the town’s first public space. After the party – which was a wonderful celebration of our little upstate community – an artist who lives next door to the town garden showed – […]
Freud and the Future of an Illusion.
19-Aug-13A friend recently lent me a copy of Clive James’ book Cultural Amnesia – now that is a good friend – which I devoured over the course of a little over a week. The book is excellent, and what is particularly lovely about it is that it filled me with the desire to read everything […]
Love.
14-Aug-13“No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.” – Arthur Schnitzler, quoted by Clive James. I’ve been reading James’ Cultural Amnesia, a fine book; essentially excerpts from James’ commonplace-book with essays built around them, on a general theme. Probably for personal reasons, my […]