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CORRESPONDENCE 21) My lovely Aunt Nell
[165] 23 DEC Oh why ask me for Hogmanay? I have lots of petty reasons – such as Who-notices-me-here-anyhow-you’vegot the-dog,-cat-&-birds – why in cold justice I should Enjoy myself elsewhere for once on Hogmanay, but I … Continue reading
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Reading of Roberts’ History of the World
Shocked the historians don’t even postulate the possibility of unconscious communication for homo erectus. When I played with Rex, chasing and being chased under the round table (qv ‘the book’, blogged at http://www.johnbrucecairns.wordpress.com) the game would not have been possible … Continue reading
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Tagged Aunt Nell, Grandma, homosexuality, man's domination of nature, Mum, New College library, Rex, telepathy, unconscious
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27: cats skinned
Sheila catches up with me back of Mackenzies as if she knew exactly where I’d be. “How did you know where I was?” “If it wasn’t one place, it’d be another. My mother knows what I did. She didn’t punish … Continue reading
21: beginning of a day in the life
From the bottom of the close, Roy and Eric are going off they won’t say where, making their destination the more mysteriously exciting even for themselves who know where unless, of course, they haven’t made up their minds and are … Continue reading
18: provisional proof of telepathy
“What did you learn today?” “I know where the Dee and the Don – ” “And the Deveron!” Mum can’t resist butting in. “No. I know where the Spey is on the map,” I offer in compensation. “The teacher must … Continue reading
15: telepathic conversations
I don’t want the world to change. It has changed because I’ve come into it but I’d keep very quiet and small and the rest could stay as it is; I’d accommodate to it. It is accommodating to me. I … Continue reading
Fifth: the third hand
On the green Mrs Manderson is shaking milk into butter. I ask if the rosebush is real. She doesn’t understand what I mean: all her roses are real. “Those aren’t,” I dismiss her others. “Is this?” “He means is it … Continue reading
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Review of Murdoch’s Existentialists and Mystics
Murdoch says, in a revised conversation with Magee, ‘any artist must be at least half in love with his unconscious mind which after all provides his motive force and does a great deal of his work.’ Mine was behind Sketch … Continue reading
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Review of Iris Murdoch’s Nuns and Soldiers
Out of kindness a woman character gives a feckless young man of her family circle a job, that of looking after her holiday home in France, and then, because of circumstances, decides she has to get away herself and ends … Continue reading
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Tagged Iris Murdoch, Nuns and Soldiers, telepathy, unconscious
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Short Exegesis (of An instance from which telepathy can be proved,…)
Short Exegesis: a story in Dadaoism (An Anthology) starts without a title. In the contents it’s called Instance. The first sentence implies: a first person past narrative; that this is one of annual visits from far-off to another character called … Continue reading
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