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By Hole Ousia Posted on June 30, 2021

Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender

I recently read Father and Son by the writer and poet Edmund Gosse. This ‘memoir’ was written in 1907 and subtitled ‘a study of two temperaments.’ I was reminded of … Continue reading Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1798, 1827, a study of two temperaments, abandoned, absence of perspective, advertising for hunchbacks, Ali Smith, Anthony Doeer, Antiquary, ARRANGED IN A FANCIFUL MANNER AND IN AN ANCIENT STYLE, Arts, Barbara Bell, Beyond Macbeth, biomedical determinism, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Californian Soil, Canongate, Cormilligan, County of Ayr, Dalblair, Dandie Dinmont, Demolished, Dr Peter Gordon, Drew, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Evening News, Edmund gosse, farm, father and son, Flaubear, Flaubert, generalism, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Glasgow Necroplis, Glasgow Necropolis, Glenmuir, Glenmuir water, Goldfrapp, Guy Mannering, Hale Bopp, He cannot unlearn the feeling, Henry Cockburn, High Dalblair, His last legs, Hole Ousia, hunchback, Intro to Californian Soil, isolation, Ivan Illich, James Hyslop, James Sheridan Knowles, John Wilson, Judith Bailey Slagle, Kirkconnel, Last Legs, let it be boldly admitted, Lincoln in the Bardo, London Grammar, mean in architecture and disreputable in character, medical model, meet you at the statue, meet you at the statue in an hour, memoir, mourns the fate of Hyslop, Nabokov, narrowness, North Bridge, Old Edinburgh, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Only the grave, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Playbills, Plymouth Brethren, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, polymaths, post office, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, Rab Wilson, rebel antiquary, reductionism, renaissance, Reniassance of Polymaths, Rob Roy, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, ruins, scenery in a small place, Science, Scott Dramas, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare collections in Scotland, Shakespeare Square, shepherd, Social maverick, Specialism, statue, Stifling distortions, Sylvia Plath, T S Eliot, The Accidental, The Antiquary, The Bell Jar, The Cameronian Dream, The Cameronian's Vision, THE FIRST SCENIC REALIZATIONS OF SCOTT’S WORK AND THE DESIRE FOR A NEW REALISM ON SCOTTISH STAGES, the hunchback, The Medical Model in Mental Health, The Muse, the Muse that sang the martyrs tale, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rise and Fall of the New Edinburgh Theatre Royal, The Shepherd, Theatre, Theatre Royal, Thomas Mann, Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender, Too much Medicine, trumpery in its decoration and a most miserable audience, Two Cultures, Two culures, Victor Hugo, Wake-up call for British Psychiatry, Walter Scott, Waterloo Place, William Shakespeare

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021

See/Saw

I have just ordered this book: The following snippets are from a review in Scotland on Sunday, 2 May 2021:

Categories: Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: artist, Canongate, Geoff Dyer, Hole Ousia, John Berger, Looking at Photographs, multifarious learner, photography, picture a beautifully written book on photography, review, Scotland on Sunday, See/Saw, Stuart Kelly, time passes listen, Understanding a photograph, writer

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2021

Richard Holloway: ‘But to repeat:’

Richard Holloway in ‘Stories We Tell Ourselves’ :

Categories: Medical humanities, PhilosophyTags: all houses had their stories, and histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Antiquary, Behind the graph lie a million stories, But to repeat, Canongate, core values for psychiatrists, Doctors' use ofsocial media, Edinburgh, even their stories keep changing, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, I am not trying to persuade, Kuhn, making meaning in a meaningless universe, Psychiatry, psychology, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, Science, Scientists, Scotland, Scottish International Storytelling festival, so-called, Social maverick, social media, stories we hear and stories we tell, Stories we tell ourselves, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2021January 3, 2021

‘Comms’ department

From ‘Stories We Tell Ourselves’ by Richard Holloway:

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, PhilosophyTags: Antiquary, brand, branding, Canongate, Comms department, Commuinications Department, Gordon Bennett, Gordon Bennett Cup, Hole Ousia, industrial complex, institution, making meaning in a meaningless universe, marketing, organisation, promoting, Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, rebranding psychiatry, Richard Holloway, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal Colleges, selling, Shrink rethink: rebranding psychiatry, Social maverick, Stories we tell ourselves, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Unique Selling Point, USP, Where Gordon Bennett meets the headlines

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