Blogs about: George Steiner
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Whispers of the gods #12
This could really be the last thing I write on Real presences1 in particular, and even on George Steiner in general. I hope so. Twelfth in a series responding to George Steiner’s Language and silence2… more →
thinking makes it so
"To all and to none." Heidegger
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wrote 1 day ago: Yesterday, I found myself singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with my family just as we have done ma … more →
The God Who is Not
wrote 4 days ago: George Steiner, My Unwritten Books Awesome is the God who is not. … more →
Looking for serendipity in the New York Times
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wrote 1 week ago: In his book Information Anxiety, Richard Saul Wurman claims that an average issue of the New York Ti … more →
"We are creatures of a great thirst. Bent on coming home to a place we have never known." George Steiner
wrote 3 weeks ago: A kitchen oven structure, a plastic outlet plate, and other remnants of a home are a haunting sight … more →
“What is ultimately required of us with respect to our love of beings?” Henry Bugbee
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wrote 1 month ago: This weekend, I sympathized with my dear friend who writes an amazingly tender and delicious food bl … more →
language domino
wrote 1 month ago: A Chinese sage of the distant past was once asked by his disciples what he would do first if he were … more →
Music and Silence
wrote 1 month ago: ‘Silence is not nothing. It is not the null set’. Music in performance exists between two silences … more →
The journey of the Saturday
wrote 1 month ago: There is one particular day in Western history about which neither historical record nor myth nor Sc … more →
Celebrating the Original Sin: Fire
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wrote 3 months ago: (Written 3 March 2012) Dear All, I am not a braai* person in that I do not enjoy the cooking aspect … more →
Human Rights and International Law (22): The Usefulness of Retroactive Laws
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wrote 3 months ago: Adolf Hitler in old age, by Andrzej Dragan (source) George Steiner, in his magnificent novel about t … more →
Human Rights and International Law (22): The Usefulness of Retroactive Laws
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wrote 3 months ago: Adolf Hitler in old age, by Andrzej Dragan (source) George Steiner, in his magnificent novel about t … more →
Today's Issue: "But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal... not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world." -Wislawa Symborska
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wrote 3 months ago: A few weeks ago, over tea with my philosophy mentor, we talked about language, as we usually do, aft … more →
George Steiner on the death of the bookstore
wrote 3 months ago: In some of the great university towns such as New Haven, or Princeton, within the past decade, the l … more →
a banal argument
wrote 3 months ago: by Terry Eagleton The novels of Graham Greene are full of reluctant Christians, men and women … more →
Reitha Pattison and the superbly obscure
wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been meaning to write this for a while but I’ve been thinking about instead, which … more →
Showing my (digital) age
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wrote 4 months ago: “The quality of silence is organically linked to the quality of language. You and I are sitting here … more →
The Rise of English
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wrote 4 months ago: Languages do not fight for survival: A Darwinian scheme of evolution and ramification, of adaptive v … more →
Updates + Microreviews
wrote 4 months ago: 1) Latest Kenyon thing here. Not sure it holds well, or makes tons of sense, but there we are (but f … more →
Summoning up Remembrance in a New Year
wrote 5 months ago: Memory. Connection. Change. Beauty. Language. Passion. Past. Present. Future. As the new year turns, … more →
