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Favourite extracts from Rowan Williams 17 Mar 2012 | 02:15 am
[Jacques] Maritain is far from claiming that there are no moral questions to be asked of artistic production, but his argument needs some teasing out. A bad man may produce fine work; but there is a p...
Bernard Williams and liberalism 4 Feb 2012 | 04:35 am
One question that cropped up at various points in the discussion of Chapter 1 of Bernard Williams’s Truth and Truthfulness at Balliol yesterday was that of Williams’s ambiguous relationship with liber...
Untitled 9 Jan 2012 | 08:54 am
The drama of an individual human life, or of the history of humanity as a whole, is not one in which a preexistent goal is triumphantly reached or tragically not reached. Neither a constant external r...
Untitled 8 Jan 2012 | 02:10 pm
In the order of grace, the native speaker is not one who has never questioned the language s/he speaks and has no awareness of what other possibilities exist for speech; the native speaker is the one ...
Untitled 8 Jan 2012 | 07:17 am
All writers think that the world has reached its nadir, its low point … in fact this age will be lamented just like the last – that’s the paradox. What you can say about the world is that … it’s getti...
Untitled 5 Jan 2012 | 10:32 pm
… I had already had a conversion experience to Wagner the previous year, when a nervous but clever master named F. X. Sempill played us the overture and Venusberg music from Tannhaüser. It’s one of th...
Untitled 5 Jan 2012 | 10:26 pm
To live in the world of creation – to get into it and stay in it – to frequent it and haunt it – to think intently and fruitfully – to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and conti...
Untitled 2 Jan 2012 | 08:19 pm
Poets, and other writers and artists may wish even more fiercely than scientists to be rid of sentimentality and similar vices, but for a poet to wish to be the kind of creature who is not vulnerable ...
Untitled 2 Jan 2012 | 08:17 pm
This street is called Camphor Tree Lane. Maybe camphor trees grew here once; there are none now. More probably the name was chosen for its picturesqueness by the pioneer escapists from dingy downtown ...
Untitled 2 Jan 2012 | 07:53 pm
To keep his errors down to a minimum, the internal Censor to whom a poet submits his work in progress should be a Censorate. It should include, for instance, a sensitive only child, a practical housew...
