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Fernando Pessoa
The Fernando Pessoa House has a unique treasure: the private library of this great literary figure. It’s not very often one can find an entire library belonging to a writer with Pessoa’s universal dimension.- Sophie Hannah Official Sophie Hannah Website
Constantine Petrou Cavafy
The Cavafy Archive website was created by the Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies and is owned by the Onassis Foundation. It contains all of Cavafy’s major works in the translation of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (edited by G.P. Savidis)
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Category Archives: Prose
CULTURAL DEMOCRATISATION OF THE SUBLIME
A interesting essay in The Times by James Marriott (Deputy Books Editor) “Are we stuck in a time loop reliving the 60s and 70s“ discusses whether the ‘cultural wasteland’ theory, that our society is incapable of new ideas and trends … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, democracy, Sublime
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An Exciting Day: Foolish Poet Press Shop Launched
I am excited to say I am now officially a recognised author. The Foolish Poet Press Shop is now launched. My 2017 Christmas poem is released. Above all today highlighted how friendship is the glue that binds us all. Continue reading
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BBC – R4 – Today – Thought for the Day – Rhidian Brook – 29/11/2012
Good Morning, Every Saturday, after some exercise, I meet a friend for coffee and we get exercised about the evils and injustices of the world. Clearly we will never, ever run out of things to get angry about. Even a … Continue reading
HAPPINESS: MEASUREMENT OF LIFE
Inspired recently by the conversations with people with whome I work (re-thinking pharmaceutical development), together with the writings of Immanual Kant – What is enlightenment? (1784) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall… ) and Santayana George Santayna – The Sense of Beauty – Being the Outlines of Aesthetic … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Happiness, Life, Prose, Reality, Thinking
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THE PURPOSE
With this site I will bring together various writings, quotes, and poems that interest me and draw together the themes of my writing. Rather than write in a conventional way I want to us this site to draw together all the themes of my writing into one full integrated whole. Continue reading
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