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Tag: borrowed words

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 27, 2018December 5, 2024

admissions of doubt

The words of: A S Byatt, Anne Tyler, Anthony Doerr, Candia McWilliam, Evelyn Waugh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gabriel García Márquez, Janice Galloway, John Macmurray, Julian Barnes, Margaret Drabble, Penelope Fitzgerald, Raymond … Continue reading admissions of doubt

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: borrowed words, over-certainty, quotes, social maverick, The Rebel antiquary, uncertainty
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 8, 2018December 5, 2024

‘She was my last dog’

A few of passages from “Waiting for the Last Bus” by Richard Holloway:                

Categories: Philosophy, Scotland, Two culturesTags: borrowed words, quotes, reading, Richard Holloway
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 22, 2018December 5, 2024

Offshore

The following passages are from ‘Offshore’ by Penelope Fitzgerald:    

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, Penelope Fitzgerald, quotes
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 2, 2018December 5, 2024

‘The doors would be taken off their hinges’

                   

Categories: Philosophy, Two culturesTags: borrowed words, quotes, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 1, 2018December 5, 2024

askscience

                      This post is based upon a few selected phrases from “Winter” by Ali Smith. This post is made in … Continue reading askscience

Categories: Philosophy, Two culturesTags: Ali Smith, borrowed words, disembodied, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 1, 2018December 5, 2024

My rain sparkling crystograms

               

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, quotes, reading, Vladimir Nabokov
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 20, 2017December 5, 2024

He rubbed his eyes, and came closer to the picture

A few passages that I have selected from ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde:          

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, quotes, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 3, 2017December 5, 2024

It new-creates the tune it sings

Categories: Folk worth talking about, Scotland, Two culturesTags: Aberdeen, borrowed words, folk worth talking about, Mountains, Nan Shepherd, quotes, reading

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