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Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Sunset Boulevard

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(Some balance after 3 dry-as-dust posts about politics).  Autumn, read John Clare's poem "Decay", think about transience an...
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Do you hear the people sing?

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Occupy Central in Hong Kong: (French original in Les Misérables:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRp-Opp2Peg English version in the 201...

Notes from "Elections and Electoral Systems"

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Chapter 13 of Principles of Comparative Politics (William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder and Sona Nadenichek Golder) - Electoral system: set ...

Notes from "Parliamentary, Presidential and Semi-Presidential Democracies: Making and Breaking Governments"

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Chapter 12 of Principles of Comparative Politics (William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder and Sona Nadenichek Golder) - Classifying democraci...
Monday, 6 October 2014

Writers who have shaped my ideas about literature

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http://somanybooksblog.com/2009/03/12/writers-who-have-influenced-me-meme/ However, instead of making such a general list, I'm going to...
Thursday, 2 October 2014

Notes- The economic effects of democracy

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From Knutsen's lecture. Question: Is a democratic regime compatible with desired social and economic outcomes- high economic growth, l...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Ibex

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Probably the funniest thing ever. Or silliest. 
Friday, 26 September 2014

Villette and Jane Eyre, or Lucy and Jane

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I've finished reading Villette .  It is a very different book from Jane Eyre . Yes there's passion, there's intensity, there...
Thursday, 25 September 2014

William Faulkner on the human dilemma

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... You’re alive in the world. You see man. You have an insatiable curiosity about him, but more than that you have an admiration for him. ...

My reception of Villette

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is something like this:   * Please don't think that the last point is my last thought on Villette - I haven't finished reading th...