Sorites Paradox
It occurs to me that this is an amusing example of the Sorites Paradox. The excerpt is from R.F.Delderfield’s “To serve them all my days”. At what moment does a pencil become a pencil-stub? This schoolmaster appears to know! LJ
Satisfactory
The Doctor & his Patients
Hellraisers: the winners of the Alcoholic Oscars – Independent.ie
During the filming of The VIPs in 1963, one of the many crappy movies Richard Burton made for money, he drank half a gallon of cognac in one day. But what might have killed most people was nothing to Burton, who had built up an extraordinary tolerance for alcohol over the years.
— Read on www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/hellraisers-the-winners-of-the-alcoholic-oscars-26462797.html
The last two took a while!
Amy Carson sings “Et incarnatus est” from Mozart’s C Minor Mass
A charming idea indeed!
Sir Christopher Lee reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”
“And darkness and decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
A rather sluggish effort
On individuation, differentiation of self & disorders…
Niall Ferguson: The Square & the Tower
Amity Shlaes: The Forgotten Man
Rigorous scrutiny and reevaluation of the received views of the New Deal, offering revelatory insight into the nature of FDR.
Amy Carson sings „Ich folge dir gleichfalls”
Sublime! LJ
Katya Morozova on Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style
La vera storia di Scureza ad Corpolò il motociclista pazzo di “Amarcord”
Un restaurant alsacien désigné meilleur restaurant gastronomique de France en 2022 – Club des Ambassadeurs d’Alsace
Direction Schiltigheim pour visiter l’établissement Les Plaisirs gourmands, classé meilleur restaurant gastronomique de France et dans le TOP 10 du classement mondial sur Tripadvisor.
— Read on www.ambassadeurs.alsace/actualites/un-restaurant-alsacien-designe-meilleur-restaurant-gastronomique-de-france-en-2022-051353
