Here is the passage in the XXIst chapter of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in which Gibbon discusses Plato’s philosphy and provides an account of how Plato, grappling with the problem of “how a Being purely incorporeal could… mould with a plastic hand the rude and independent [Read more…]
I seem to require one, or even better two major balls-ups before I can play chess with any degree of craft or cunning. Take the latest game played at Dr M’s after an entertaining reading the first half of the XXIst chapter of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman [Read more…]
I have just finished reading the most complex book that I’ve read for quite a while, Paul’s New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology, by John Milbank, Slavoj Žižek and Creston Davis. According to Creston Davis, “The book examines how Paul gives us the coordinates to breakout [Read more…]
Mr Ardle came over to indulge in another attempt to take a castle with just 20 minifigs and some additional features. New rules to allow the besiegers to build a siege wall. A card was drawn each turn to decide whether or not any reinforcements had arrived. We didn’t get [Read more…]
In 1938 Graham Greene travelled to Mexico to investigate the state of the country after the anti-clerical purges of the Calles government.
He travelled through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where the repression of Catholicism had been most severe.
The experience is recorded in The Lawless Roads
I wrote this review of The Lawless Roads in 2003.
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