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Author Archives: Charles Lambert
Mammon, Mormon
The Mormons are crying foul as they get picked on for bankrolling the Yes to Prop 8 campaign. It really isn’t fair. After all, they only raised something like half of the more than 30 million dollars used to deny … Continue reading
Posted in bigotry, homophobia, religion
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Recursion
This great photograph accompanies an article in today’s Guardian about the ex-missionary and linguist, Daniel Everett, and his experiences with an Amazonian tribe, as a result of which he’s had probelms not only with God, and his family, but also … Continue reading
PS to previous post
St John’s appointed HSD College Rat Catcher in 1967.
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In the stump of the old tree
I’ve just come across a Guardian blogpost by Billy Mills about the pleasure of discovering little-known writers, in which he mentions Hugh Sykes Davies, pictured above in the grounds of St John’s, Cambridge, where he taught. Like Billy, I first … Continue reading
Posted in cambridge, hugh sykes davies, poetry
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Marriage, shmarriage
The joy of Obama’s victory has been slightly soured by the votes in California and elsewhere against gay marriages, confirmation – if that were needed – of Obama’s extraordinary ability to draw on a wide variety of constituencies, including many … Continue reading
Posted in homophobia, marriage, religion
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Knowledgeability
A talking head on Fox News informs us that Sarah Palin “lacked a degree of knowledgeability”.
THE GOLDEN FLEECE
The final three sections of my poem sequence The Golden Fleece. The earlier parts can be found here: Jason 1, Medea, Chiron. I suggest you start with those (in that order). HERCULES 1 Apples. Bread. Wine. And the camps … Continue reading
Posted in golden fleece, poem, value
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Stick two
My last post spoke about self-referentiality. Just to show that I’m not entirely foreign to the phenomenon myself, here’s a link to a post about The Scent of Cinnamon and Other Stories on One Story, which first published the title … Continue reading
Stick
There’s an interesting piece on the Guardian books blog today about self-referential humour, triggered by a joke that turns out to be less lavatorial than one might expect. But it’s actually the comments that made me copy the link and post this. One … Continue reading
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