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Darwin's Recent Reading
With the Catholic News sites discussing the Vatican's move to reform the LCWR, I pulled this slim volume written back in 1986 off the shelf to re-read. It's a quick and amusing read: a satirical view of the breakdown and renewal of reli...
by Henry James
I'd never read any Henry James before, though I did see the Nicole Kidman movie adaptation of Portrait of a Lady some years ago because... well, because it was a costume drama with Nicole Kidman in it.
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by Evelyn Waugh
If you, like me, have been reared on tales of the second World War as the just and virtuous struggle of the "greatest generation", Evelyn Waugh's arch novels (based loosely on his own war experiences) are an important and darkly enjoyabl...
by Jane Austen
This was the first time in some years that I've re-read this Austen novel, one of the quieter and shorter ones, but one which has ranked among my favorites. It was striking me, on this pass, that it rather shows the effects of having be...
2 comments:
From your interlocutor's last rebuttal..."I really appreciate Darwin taking on the task of engaging in a debate over a topic I have studied more intensely than he has."
I can honestly say I admire your forbearance.
I don't think Alex meant any vaunting by it. Just to give context (as the remark might otherwise seem odd):
When we'd started arguing about some of these matters I'd expressed a certain hesitation to put myself on record debating an economic theory I'd never heard of before with a economics PhD student who was making it one of his primary areas of interest.
I've appreciated that Alex has refrained entirely from any sort of academic rank-pulling of the, "If you haven't read Bullworthy on Malfeasance Theory, then there's really no point in listening to you," variety.
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