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The Devil's Washtub: January 2014
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An Irish Voice: Things Irish. Things Political. Things Topical. Things Personal. Things Literary. Travel: China, Cuba, Amsterdam, Spain, Poland, Ireland and elsewhere. Wednesday, 29 January 2014. The Divine Comedy Part 4. The Divine Comedy: Part 4. P ride, treachery and the inescapable logic of Hell. Purgatory, repentance and the structure and nature of punishment. Hypocrisy and the Wastrel Friars; and some good news. And raw politics: De Monarchia. And the spiritual: Faith and free will. And with punish...
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The Devil's Washtub: CHINA: Eric X. Li : Style Over Substance ?
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An Irish Voice: Things Irish. Things Political. Things Topical. Things Personal. Things Literary. Travel: China, Cuba, Amsterdam, Spain, Poland, Ireland and elsewhere. Sunday, 30 November 2014. CHINA: Eric X. Li : Style Over Substance? Recently a young lady from China, (lets give her the unlikely and Orwellian name of " Mollie" ), put a question to me: "Why are you so interested in China? That prompted the question about style over substance, or put another way, as to whether or not as an economic and po...
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The Devil's Washtub: June 2014
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An Irish Voice: Things Irish. Things Political. Things Topical. Things Personal. Things Literary. Travel: China, Cuba, Amsterdam, Spain, Poland, Ireland and elsewhere. Tuesday, 24 June 2014. CHINA: Refusing to Forget - part 2. When I had finished reading, A Heart For Freedom,. Nd yes, set against this same iconic image. And in this context, I must leave it to Chai Ling to explain why love matters. She had, we are told, a heart full of "mercy and kindness" towards the less fortunate, after which, Ling rec...
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The Devil's Washtub: April 2013
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An Irish Voice: Things Irish. Things Political. Things Topical. Things Personal. Things Literary. Travel: China, Cuba, Amsterdam, Spain, Poland, Ireland and elsewhere. Monday, 8 April 2013. He who is true God was therefore born in the complete and perfect nature of a true man, whole in his own nature, whole in ours. By our nature we mean what the Creator had fashioned in us from the beginning, and took to himself in order to restore it. He who is true God is also true man. There is no falsehood in th...
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The Devil's Washtub: "to exist on earth is beyond any power to name."
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An Irish Voice: Things Irish. Things Political. Things Topical. Things Personal. Things Literary. Travel: China, Cuba, Amsterdam, Spain, Poland, Ireland and elsewhere. Thursday, 18 June 2015. To exist on earth is beyond any power to name.". And to James McGowan, whose translations from the French, allow me to enter the Parisian, and in some respects seedy world, of Charles Baudelaire And James E Falen, whose translation from the Russian, has allowed me to enjoy Alexander Pushkin's novel, Eugene. But what...
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2015 February 14 « Here There And Everywhere
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Here There And Everywhere. An Irish Voice on Travel, Literature, and Life's experiences. A Poem for my Seventy-third Birthday. At the church of Our Lady and Saint Walstan, in Advent,. They did all the right things. On Sunday’s, adults came to the sanctuary – bearing gifts:. Toys, that the Salvation Army would distribute among the poor,. Foodstuffs for the hungry;. And for the people of Cambodia, toothbrushes, (“new”),. And discarded spectacle frames. Sat with him, right by the stable door;. China: Refusi...
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The Devil's Washtub: June 2015
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An Irish Voice: Things Irish. Things Political. Things Topical. Things Personal. Things Literary. Travel: China, Cuba, Amsterdam, Spain, Poland, Ireland and elsewhere. Thursday, 18 June 2015. To exist on earth is beyond any power to name.". And to James McGowan, whose translations from the French, allow me to enter the Parisian, and in some respects seedy world, of Charles Baudelaire And James E Falen, whose translation from the Russian, has allowed me to enjoy Alexander Pushkin's novel, Eugene. But what...
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The Devil's Washtub: August 2013
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An Irish Voice: Things Irish. Things Political. Things Topical. Things Personal. Things Literary. Travel: China, Cuba, Amsterdam, Spain, Poland, Ireland and elsewhere. Thursday, 1 August 2013. A Spiritual Reading 4. Recently while writing to a friend in China, whose pet name is that of a bird, and symbolic of a desire to be free, I had occasion to recall a book that I read some years ago. It was, 1421 The Year China Discovered The World,. The Emperor's Grand Plan. Harshness to the people below and above,...
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CHINA: Behind the Great Wall « Here There And Everywhere
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Here There And Everywhere. An Irish Voice on Travel, Literature, and Life's experiences. CHINA: Behind the Great Wall. This same thought process, (which is one of concern for others,) occupied the mind of the French Philosopher Simone Weil. After she had accepted Christ, but before she consented to being baptised in extremis, by her friend Simone Deitz,. The Temple of Heaven: Beijing. Traditionally. A place of prayer for good harvests. In a chapter entitled “Make Me An Extraordinary Child! In a sharp, sh...
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“to exist on earth is beyond any power to name” « Here There And Everywhere
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Here There And Everywhere. An Irish Voice on Travel, Literature, and Life's experiences. 8220;to exist on earth is beyond any power to name”. And to James McGowan, whose translations from the French, allow me to enter the Parisian, and in some respects seedy world, of Charles Baudelaire And James E Falen, whose translation from the Russian, has allowed me to enjoy Alexander Pushkin’s novel, Eugene. But what really matters in the context of this blog is, that these poems were translated from Polish into E...