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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Jun 11, 2017November 23, 2017

Sapere Aude

The author Adam Nicolson in “Sea Room”: The poet and doctor William Carlos Williams talked of an adventure: Mukul Kesavan in “Looking through glass” Captain Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited about … Continue reading Sapere Aude

Categories: Architecture, Deeside Tales, Family history, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Royal Deeside, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Aberdeen, aboutmebeingandbecoming, Adam Nicolson, Anatomy, Anatomy Museum, Boat of Garten, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Candia McWilliams, CG + OCE16, Deeside, Deeside Tales, Dr Adair, Dr John Flaxman, Evelyn Waugh, George Washington Wilson, Glenbardy, Hale Bopp, Hercules Scott, Hue & Cry, Johnston Shearer, Kenneth Calman, Leaving Alexandria, lecht, Liz Lochhead, Margaret Drabble, Marischal Street, Marishal College, Max Porter, Mukul Kesavan, Norman Maccaig, Old Machar, Peter Davidson, Philosophical Medical Ethics, pioneer photographer, Richard Flanagan, Richard Holloway, The drain, Two culures, Ursine familiars, William Carlos Williams, Winston Churchill

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Mar 4, 2017November 25, 2017

he saw and why he saw is the story

This was filmed at the door of Glendevon castle

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Dr Peter J Gordon, Glendevon castle, Hale Bopp, Hole Ousia, Omphalos, teddy bear, ursine, Ursine familiars

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