In his fourth book, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, Nietzsche seeks to unmask the fictions and delusions of European values and of European morality in particular. The book was written up from a series of notebooks that he worked on when out walking. It is divided into 575 [Read more…]
Up until the rise of Humanism and the 16th Century Protestant Reformation the natural world tended to be read in a symbolical way that was related to the symbolical reading of scripture. It was said that God had given mankind two books, the Book of Scripture and the Book of [Read more…]
Wednesday 21st July 1982 Our first day of “hitchhiking” turns into a three mile walk along the Loire to Amboise in the midday sun, with Boff telling me that he had a feeling that “something” would happen. It was somehow connected to the fact that he had been there before. [Read more…]
After reading about the death of Julian the Apostate in Dr M’s “History in English” lesson on Wednesday 4th July, we settled down to a couple of games of chess. In this game, Dr M attacks as if he is playing shogi (Japanese chess) and neglected to defend his King’s [Read more…]
In this reading, Julian the Apostate crosses the Tigris, then burns his boats and marches deep into enemy territory. The Persians fall back, scorching the earth as they flee before the forces of Julian. The Roman army soon runs short of food and supplies and are misled by the treachery [Read more…]
Tuesday 20th July 1982 At the campsite in Écommoy The previous day’s entry broke off in the late afternoon after we had arrived with Boff’s parents at “a pleasant camp site” in Écommoy in the north of France. Boff and I were playing table football in a bar when we [Read more…]
Having comfortably won the first of our two games of chess on Wednesday, I went into the second game with far too much complacency, which led to a lackadaisical opening and middle game… Thankfully, the battery in the digital movie camera ran out of juice, but enough of the game [Read more…]
Last Wednesday evening, after our History in English class, Dr. M and I played two games of chess. Dr M kindly allowed me to film the games as a way to keep records without have to go through the rigmarole of taking notes. In the first game, Dr M made [Read more…]
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