Blogs about: Procrustes
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on Grant’s response in The Speculative Turn « Object-Oriented Philosophy
on Grant’s response in The Speculative Turn « Object-Oriented Philosophy. Fascinating post by Graham Harman on Iain Hamilton Grant’s response to his article on substance. One/multiple substanc… more →
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Body and Soul
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wrote 1 week ago: Poseidon from Milos, 2nd century BC (National Archaeological Museum of Athens) God of the sea, … more →
Red Letter Day
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wrote 1 week ago: Procrustes, a son of Poseidon was a nasty sort of chap who believed in torture and cruelty and all … more →
Antifragile
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wrote 1 month ago: In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black s … more →
Maybe the world is not ready
wrote 1 month ago: Maybe the world is not ready… I come to think. As the heart lays served on a plate, to be frie … more →
From The Bed of Procrustes
wrote 1 month ago: I still believe Fooled by Randomness is the best work by Nassim Nicolas Taleb and then he add n over … more →
Boris on Bankers' Bonus Limits
wrote 2 months ago: by Giles Cadman Boris Johnson has a typically well thought out and well written piece about the Euro … more →
Darkening the Door
wrote 2 months ago: “I am small and despised: yet do not I forget Thy precepts.” (Psalm 119:141) Shrinking t … more →
Old wine in new wineskins
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wrote 4 months ago: Feel it. Don’t classify it then reason from it. This is not always advice I take. I want to kn … more →
Android Insurrection **
wrote 4 months ago: With a reach that far exceeds its grasp, this science fiction cheapie from Andrew Bellware suffers f … more →
Original Poem: "Procrustean Labor of Love"
wrote 5 months ago: “Procrustean Labor of Love” According to the gruesome Greek myth, Procrustes was a smith … more →
Sleep Deprivation (in five acts)
wrote 5 months ago: one Pale blue, always pale, anemic. Long ago it was different. We were magic then – magic as the clo … more →
2 Days to go-Some welcome advice from a fellow blogger, a ‘character’ test, identity and FEAR!!
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wrote 9 months ago: I was really touched to see that a fellow blogger, Patti Clark had written a blog talking about my ‘ … more →
BORIS AND THE BED OF PROCRUSTES
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wrote 11 months ago: In a recent CNN interview, Boris was putting forward a solution for the eurocrisis. He believes tha … more →
A Taste of Realism by Fred Reed
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wrote 1 year ago: On my daily stroll through the LRC I found another great article by Fred Reed. Keeping it real is wh … more →
Procrustes' Bed - Lessons on History, from History
wrote 1 year ago: A last post on Historical Objectivity As a sidenote, a show of appreciation goes to George Steer for … more →
Off-Colour Remarks
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wrote 1 year ago: Last fortnight yielded something of a surprise: black MP Diane Abbott being dragged across the airwa … more →
Procrustean Schools
wrote 1 year ago: Curiosity counts. We’re all curious at birth. Out of painful labor we emerge. All we knew f … more →
Hero's journey or Procrustean bed?
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wrote 1 year ago: Procrustes is a man after my own heart in certain circumstances. In case you haven’t heard of him, h … more →
Hitting Rock Sodom
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wrote 1 year ago: When examining the Biblical references to the wicked city of Sodom, it becomes clear that there prob … more →
