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Quote/Word of the week August 28, 2009

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK: The sorrow that hath no vent in tears makes other organs weep. Sir Henry Maudsley.

WORD OF THE WEEK: Qualia: (from Quale 1675: The qualities of a thing).

These are recognizable qualitative characters of the given, which may be repeated in different experiences, and weather set off quite different vibrations.’


Quotes/Word of the week. August 6, 2009

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snail-horn perception of Beauty. 

THE PRISONER AND THE FUGITIVE MARCEL PROUST:

There is in our body a certain instinctive sense of what is good for us, as in our hearts of what is right, which no doctor or medicine or theology can replace.



Consolations of Proust August 2, 2009

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Paris 11-07 071 copy

Quote/word of the week July 30, 2009

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‘The human face is truly like that of a god in some Oriental theogony, a whole cluster of faces side by side, but on different planes and


BIRTH PANGS OF WRITING A BOOK June 15, 2009

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My first blog entry is being written on a TGV from Avignon to St Pancras, which is bringing me back to London and not on any account to serve it up to the agent this time until I was certain that I couldn’t go any further on my own. And now I cannot.