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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 25, 2018December 5, 2024

‘The Beautiful Summer’

A few selected passages from “The Beautiful Summer” by Cesare Pavese:    

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

The Plague

A few selected extracts from ‘The Plague’ by Albert Camus.

Categories: Medical humanities, Two culturesTags: Albert Camus, borrowed words, quotes, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 24, 2018December 5, 2024

If morning ever comes

A few selected passages from the novel ‘If morning ever comes’ by Anne Tyler:

Categories: Two culturesTags: Anne Tyler, borrowed words, quotes
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 12, 2018December 5, 2024

To speak our life as we feel it is a freedom

‘The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy’s latest “living autobiography”, I found rather special.  

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, Deborah Levy, feeling, quotes, reading
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

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