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Of the ‘pathetic fallacy’.

Saturday, 19 May 2012

By John Ruskin. NOW, THEREFORE, PUTTING these tiresome and absurd words1 quite out of our way, we may go on at our ease to examine the point in question,–namely, the difference between the ordinary, proper, and true appearances of things to us; and the extraordinary, or false appearances, when we are under the influence of […]

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Metaphor and poetic mendacity.

Sunday, 13 May 2012

Roden Noel: When…we attribute to nature a sympathy with our moods, whether of joy or sorrow, we are not under an amiable delusion; the intuition is true, although the shape it assumes may not always be scientifically correct. Nature, like man, has her bright, rich, joyous, and her desolate, decaying phases; in joy we feel the former most, in sorrow we feel and discern more especially the latter. We may indulge these feelings to a morbid degree and see things too brightly or too gloomily; but the sense of a sympathy in nature has its basis in fact.

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Thomas Hardy: The Convergence of the Twain.

Saturday, 14 April 2012

Thomas Hardy: In a solitude of the sea / Deep from human vanity, / And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.

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Bookshop Memories.

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

By George Orwell. WHEN I WORKED in a second-hand bookshop—so easily pictured, if you don’t work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios—the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people. Our shop had an exceptionally interesting stock, yet I doubt whether […]

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Sunday, 8 January 2012

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Friday, 25 November 2011

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On ancestor worship and other peculiar beliefs.

Saturday, 5 November 2011

Herbert Spencer: The rudimentary form of all religion is the propitiation of dead ancestors, who are supposed to be still existing, and to be capable of working good or evil to their descendants.

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