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'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free'
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- Axel Leijonhufvud
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- Francois Couperin
- Joan Robinson
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December
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- And a Happy New Year...
- Star Child
- Seigniorage to the Rescue
- A Good Read: How to Resolve the Euro Crisis Withou...
- The Debt of Nations
- Pacta Sunt Servanda
- Britain Can't Afford EU Membership
- The Full Text of the EU Statement
- Cooked his Goose
- Innocent Tax Evasion
- The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
- PIGS Breakfast
- The Best Cartoon
- School for Scandal
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Fallen Angels
- David Cameron (for risking the disorderly dissolution of the Euro)
- Giorgio Napolitano (for stance on Budapest 1956: Prague 1968: Italy 2013)
- Mervyn King (for bailing-out Northern Rock)
- Nicholas Kaldor (for inventing VAT)
8 comments:
Happy New Year HG. Hope you've plenty of lira under the mattress :-)
Happy New Year, Lilith!
No Lire under the mattress but power supplies, fields, olive groves, vineyards (not mine, close neighbours - very labour-intensive are vineyards, and lots of know-how needed), wells (water, not oil but we have sunshine for electricity), deer and hare bouncing through the woods, kitchen garden now stretching as far as the eye can see (well, not quite, but jolly big). best of all, we are not alone in all this provision - most Italians have fallback countryside and generationally stable community links.
Just writing a post on what is truly frightening in 2012 - but then it's in the picture on this post. Still, might as well spell it out.
would I be right in thinking that the german bourgeoisie have S*i* for brains ?
Chief, I'm so cross with Germany the picture seemed politer than the words.
There said it for you (however the german in me is now nervous).
from the Dummett pieces on Leiter (Anita Avramides)
Oxford in the late 1970’s and early 80’s was a very special place for philosophy. Philosophers were not just writing the books we were all reading, but they were to be found as heads of Oxford Colleges and even as vice chancellor of the university.
Philosophy was exciting and one wanted to be a part of it. There were visiting philosophers like Donald Davidson and Saul Kripke spending time in Oxford, seminars by young talents such as John McDowell and Gareth Evans, and lectures by the likes of Peter Strawson and J.L. Mackie,. Pre-eminent among these was Michael Dummett, newly elected Wykeham Professor of Logic ...
*sighs*
how right she is
Were you there in the late '70s ND? Might you take another life route if you were to choose again?
oh yes, I was
met all the chaps she lists except DD, and knew 4 of the 5 Oxford residents well
attended Strawson's last lecture, just before he died
the very last question he took at the end was "how do you define Oxford Philosophy?"
"it is analytic philosophy - *pause / whisper* - very well done "
he was tired at the drinks afterwards and so sat cross-legged on the floor, which not so many 86-year olds can do
another life-route ?
it's a parlour-game, isn't it ? (and don't use the word 'journey', please)
could never have guessed the one I took - so I could probably never have come up with a different one
(real question is - what happens next ?)
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