EVOLUTIONHunger that strivest in the restless arms Of the sea-flower, that drivest rooted things To break their moorings, that unfoldest wings In creatures to be rapt above thy harms; Hunger, of whom the hungry-seeming waves Were the first ministers, till, free to range. Thou mad’st the Universe thy park and grange, What is it thine… Continue reading Emily Pfeiffer
Jason Rosenhouse can’t let the slightest criticism of atheists go by without comment. John Pieret thinks he should think a little harder first.
This afternoon’s speaker, Dame Gillian Beer, is the author of a book I very much want to read now, coming as I am (or have been for what seems an eternity) to the closing pages of a novel I’ve been working on myself.
I love this guy. He’s going to be 44 soon, and he just keeps going. Through thick and thin, good times and bad. No matter how many pot holes he runs over. I hope Tim Wakefield is pitching when he’s fifty.
There was no afternoon session today, so I took an hour after lunch to visit Heffer’s on Trinity Street near King’s College. I went in thinking I’d quite like to buy Christopher Lee’s revised autobiography. But they didn’t have it. So, I wandled downstairs to the philosophy section. Ed Feser will be happy to know… Continue reading Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
