Tag Archives: Joseph Conrad

“… a last glimpse of the land now being lost for ever”

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Ron Pavellas

… Thus ends The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, one of the three books I present today. The others are: Thesiger by Michael Asher; and The Search for Sana by Richard Zimler, the latter having been recently discussed in … Continue reading →

Posted in Geography, History | Tagged Abissinia, Algernon Swinburne, Arabian Peninsula, Australia, Brazil, Brockhaus Encyclopedia, China, City of Derby, Edward Fitzgerald, England, entropy, Ethiopia, Great Britain, Gustav Flaubert, Iraq, Israel, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Conrad, Kenya, Michael Asher, North Sea, Orbis Tertius, Palestine, Richard Zimler, Rings of Saturn, Roche limit, Search for Sana, Sir Thomas Browne, Suffolk, T. E. Lawrence, The Langoliers, Thesiger, Thomas Browne, Tlön, Uqbar, W.G. Sebald | 5 Comments

Friedrich Nietzsche on God, Christianity, The Enlightenment, Rationality, Science, Truth, and Especially About Words & Language

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Ron Pavellas

In my early years I associated Nietzsche’s name with the phrase “God is dead,” but I didn’t know if he was supposed to be celebrating this assertion or decrying it, or something else entirely. In the early 1980s, when having a … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Literature, Church & Religion, Philosophy & Psychology, Science & the Sciences, The Mind, The Soul | Tagged Alan Watts, Buddhism, Christianity, Dave Robinson, Friedrich Nietzsche, God, God is dead, Human, Joseph Conrad, Language, Nietzsche, Postmodernism, Rationality, Robert Pirsig, Rudyard Kipling, science, The Tao, Truth, words, Zen | 2 Comments

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“… a last glimpse of the land now being lost for ever”

Friedrich Nietzsche on God, Christianity, The Enlightenment, Rationality, Science, Truth, and Especially About Words & Language

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