February 2012
6 posts
“This is people’s music. This isn’t pop music written by somebody on...”
– Mike Harding, presenter of the Radio 2 Folk Awards (in an interview on BBC Breakfast)
Ghost in the machine
If you ever feel like reading a bit of the Bible, try the Gospel of Mark. It was written for a Roman audience, who loved a rollicking, ripping yarn. So it’s a mass-market paperback, full of action and adventure. And thankfully, it’s short!
I just read this bit: ‘But when they saw him walking on the sea, they supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out; for they all saw him and...
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither...”
– from The Four Quartets, by T S Eliot
“The development of a well-rounded mind requires both an ability to find and...”
– from The Shallows by Nicholas Carr