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Tag Archives: Scotland
“[My function] in Scotland during the past twenty to thirty years [is] that of the cat-fish that vitalizes the other torpid denizens of the aquarium.” –Hugh MacDiarmid
The function, as it seems to me, O’ Poetry is to bring to be At lang, lang last that unity … — Hugh MacDiarmid, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” It’s his birthday today. He was born on August … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce, On This Day, writers
Tagged Finnegans Wake, Hugh MacDiarmid, Michael Schmidt, poetry, Scotland, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot
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Under the Skin (2014)
I am thrilled that all I knew, going into Under the Skin, was that Scarlett Johansson plays a creepy woman who drives around Scotland in her van luring men to hitch a ride with her. That’s all I knew. What … Continue reading
Libraries of the World: Heart-achey Beauty
This is for my father, and for all library-lovers everywhere. Theology Room at St. Deiniol’s library, North Wales Herzog August Bibliothek, Germany Austrian National Library (the Prunksaal) Strahov Monastery – the 1st library, Prague, Czechoslovakia Another one of Strahov Monastery … Continue reading
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Tagged Austria, bookshelves, Czechoslovakia, England, Germany, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Wales
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Normally I don’t do this, but here goes: Somebody (the same person, apparently) KEEPS searching my site for references to “David O’Hara”, that great burly (dare I say – blurpy??) Scottish actor who was in Braveheart – and a ton … Continue reading