Richard D North.

On culture, Nature, liberal issues, monasticism, spirituality

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de Botton & misreading “The News”

I have disagreed with most of what I have read of Alain de Botton's work over the years and am not likely to read his latest, The News: A user's manual. In case you do, here is my take on what I understand him to be saying, so you can judge for yourself. In other words, here's a user's manual to his book. Read more...

Published

03 February 2014

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Poem: A comic Knight

This poems tries to catch how scraps of childhood memory are such an important living background. Read more...

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30 January 2014

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Poem: More arrows

It's curious how youthful optimism hasn't dimmed: I have been around long enough to be sceptical of achieving much now, but my aspirations are neither reduced nor feverish, so far as a I can see. Read more...

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29 January 2014

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Poem: Obituary

Don't we all wonder how our lives will be assessed when we die? Read more...

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29 January 2014

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Poem: Being quite trim

For a couple of years I have been what's called careful about what I eat, and have taken quite a lot of exercise. I wrote this as a kind of vanitas. Read more...

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29 January 2014

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Poem: Love poem #1

Here is the first of a tranche of poems I wrote in 1996 for Valerie, who became my wife in 2013. Read more...

Published

28 January 2014

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