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Month: December 2012

December 23, 2012

‘Out of the Great Sea…’, J.R.R. Tolkien

Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the…

December 22, 2012

Review: Clouds Above the Hill Vol I and II, Ryotaro Shiba

A small island nation was about to enter a period of great cultural change. I believe that one of the best things that happened…

December 17, 2012

‘The Radetzky March’, J. Strauss (Vater)

I have always been a great fan of ‘The Radetzky March’ but it is only now after reading a biography of the Marshal Joseph…

December 16, 2012

‘Radetzky’, A. Sked

“That you will make no deliberate blunders, your character guarantees; if you make the usual ones, well I have long become used to them.”…

December 12, 2012

‘Castles in Context’, R. Liddiard

I recently read this revisionist piece of castle history, specifically concerning the building of castles in Anglo-Norman England (and Wales) between 1066 and the…

December 7, 2012

‘The Analects’, Confucius [Kong Fuzi]

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought…

December 6, 2012

The Hannya Shingyo

I find that I enjoy listening to a chanting of the Hannya Shingyo. Sometimes as much that I half-consider going through the lines to…

December 6, 2012

‘The Ionian Mission’, P. O’Brian

I today had the opportunity to finish the first of Patrick O’Brian’s novels that I’ve tried to read. This happened to be ‘The Ionian…

December 4, 2012

‘Life Is a Dream’, P. Calderón de la Barca

For there is such a pleasure in complaining That a philosopher I’ve heard maintaining One ought to seek a sorrow and be vain of…

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