Very evocative passage in Justin Cartwright’s The Promise of Happiness. Amidst the tired soul-searching on what defines Englishness, this’ll do for me: For Frances the church has very little to do with God; it’s more a shrine to Englishness: flowers, history, familiar – if meaningless – hymns, your own kneeler and a sort of bracing [...]
Entries from July 9th, 2008
Girls and Intellectuals
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Geoff Dyer: I spent my twenties labouring – more accurately, idling – under the misconception that women liked intellectuals. In Africa I am confronted by an elemental truth: they prefer rangers and pilots…
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Web 2.0 Countries?
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Web 2.0
I presume this observation is old-hat now, but I found the selection of countries that Feed Informer put as the ‘likely guesses’ on their registration form (before listing the rest alphabetically) pretty interesting. I wonder if it was compiled from data? United StatesUnited KingdomAustraliaCanadaSpainChinaSwedenDenmarkFranceGermanyItalyRussia Where’s India? – I thought, x Technorati Tags: Feed Informer, Web [...]
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Diary vs Blog
July 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0, Writing
Knowing that I was going to an experiment with a blog, I brought a few of my old diaries out with me to The Hamptons. They’re a rag-bag and misleading look at my life – spiking each year in the summer (when I’ve tended to travel) as well as the obligatory January 1st – 3rd [...]
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