January 2012
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Book Review: The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is what I call a philosophical novel. I read them occasionally and before Lancaster University – when I took a year off – I read Hesse, Camus and Sartre partly for pleasure and partly to prepare myself for study. My favourite course was Philosophy and Literature when we examined Hamlet, Voltaire, and a section of Sartre’s Nausea. I got First Class grades for several essays in Renaissance Literature, and spent…
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Chorlton Meadows Dream: A Photography Project
Wandering is the way we discover the world - Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong What is truth? says Pilate, Waits for no answer; Double your stakes, says the clock To the ageing dancer; Double the guard, says Authority, Treble the bars; Holes in the sky, says the child Scanning the stars. - Louis MacNeice Space has a spiritual equivalent and can heal what is divided and burdensome in us - Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace Of Open Spaces This article shows the intellectual intentions underlying my photographic project, based on…