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Monthly Archives: December 2025
And to make an end is to make a beginning
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” – T. S. Eliot
Performative reading and other leftover accretions
If all human activity can be measured on a spectrum of authenticity and performativity, what metrics can we use to weed out the genuine from the fabricated? Will we just know? And why do we care? If our culture of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged A Christmas Carol, Coffee, pirates, R.Crumb, Reading, Salman Rushdie
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“Sir, that is no way to treat a book!”
British writer and photographer Ben Schott published an essay in the New York Times Book review guaranteed to elicit a cringey response in even the most casual bibliophile. Confessions of a Book Abuser I have to admit I was flattered … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Uncategorized
Tagged Bibliophiles, Books, New York Times Book Review
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Definitely not, but actually maybe
It has been suggested to me that the frequency of my posts about Japan is somehow indicative of a recently identified syndrome called 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗣𝗝𝗗). To be honest, I’ve had a history of similar responses over the years to … Continue reading
Alice is back home
Christ Church Oxford and the Bodleian Libraries have become joint owners of an exceptionally rare first edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the most important of only 22 known surviving copies of the first and subsequently withdrawn edition. The book … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Museums, Writing
Tagged Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Bodleian Library, Lewis Carroll, Oxford University
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Peace on Earth
Since George Harrison’s passing in 2001, his family and estate have periodically released new videos of some of his older songs. The most recent video, for “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)”, is from a possibly surprising director – Stranger … Continue reading
Tolkien Christmas
Before he was the world renowned author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the iconic British novelist, poet, philologist and academic wrote letters from Father Christmas to his four children, John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla. Beginning in … Continue reading
Book of Christmas
THE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS (New York: Macmillan, 1909) Introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie. Illustrations by George Wharton Edwards.
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Tagged book illustration, Christmas, decorative covers, Publishing and Printing
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Travel Between The Pages 