When I was still at university, I held a weekend job as a receptionist at a local nursing home. For most part, it was a pleasant experience: it paid well, it was challenging enough without being boring, and most of the people were friendly enough. There was, however, a small legion of despondent octogenarians – Stadlers and Waldorfs without the sense of humour or, indeed, each other, lonely and perpetually complaining about the ills of the society that had slipped from their grasp. I never […]
Monkey Business Ain’t All That Funny, Actually
**** Confession: I had no idea what We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was about before I started reading it. I imagine this is a hard pitch to sell – as an author, as a publisher, as a bookseller – but in this case, it enhanced my reading experience of this book, even though, when the narrator of the story points out what I’d managed to miss so far, I did feel rather stupid for a fleeting moment. So let’s start with the yes or […]
Yeah, Caffeine Deprivation Will Do that to You
*** Somewhere at the end of Under the Banner of Heaven, Krakauer writes: “…those who write about religion owe it to their readers to come clean about their own theological frame of reference. So here’s mine: I don’t know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don’t know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment…There are some ten […]
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