Susan loved eating fresh barbecued fish, but the thought of having bones wedged down my throat meant I couldn’t last the meal. But I delighted in watching Susan munching the tailor flesh like a primeval woman at the mouth of…
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‘Life, Bottom Heavy Like a Kangaroo’ – Anthony Burgess
This is the third excerpt presented here from Anthony Burgess’ masterpiece Earthly Powers. Octogenarian British writer Kenneth Toomey recalls with spectacular clarity (as he almost always does) his visit to Australia in 1930 or thereabouts. Australia is where I was…
AnkiDroid – Hedonism, Euphemism & Malinchism
Last Wednesday, I discussed how I came in touch with AnkiDroid and the wonders it has done for bolstering my daily learning of Spanish and English. Today I present just 3 cards that I added to my Anki. It requires…
Learning a Second Language and AnkiDroid
If I remember rightly the three principal components I highlighted as integral to learning a second language were as follows: Apart from those generic areas, I presented technological assists aiding in one’s learning. One of these tools reigns supreme in…
A Snorer is Outsnoored – Earthly Powers (Anthony Burgess)
This week on Wednesday’s literature piece we will continue with Anthony Burgess’s panamoramic saga novel of the 20th century Earthly Powers. The novel appeared on the shortlist for the Booker Prize in the year of its publication but lost out…
Earthly Powers (1980)- Anthony Burgess
The local bookstore near where I live has mostly books written in Spanish, but there is a classic English Literature section with thousands of titles to choose from. I miss my Kindle e-reader which decided one day it wouldn’t recharge…
5/4 – 11/4/21 incl. Fructose, The Band & Dostoevsky
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Peter Attia – The Drive Podcast – #87—Rick Johnson, MD: Fructose—the common link in hypertension, insulin resistance, T2D, & obesity? Audio podcast at Peter…
God’s Place in Our Future (Brave New World) – Aldous Huxley
This week in Wednesday’s literature piece we continue our exploration of one the 20th Century’s great Dystopian novels Brave New World (BNW). This week’s excerpt comes from the same philosophical argument John and Mustapha Mond were having the last time…
7/12 – 13/12/20 incl. Vaccines, Typewriters and the Past
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Bret and Heather 58th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: A Vaccine Like No Other Video podcast at Bret Weinstein: The DarkHorse podcast remains one of the…
Brave New World (1932) – Aldous Huxley
This week in Wednesday’s literature piece we are taking a peak at one of the all-time great novels about the dehumanising aspects of scientific progress. We were assigned to read Brave New World in High School and I’m willing to…
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