Culture – Quaerentia
Mark Meynell's jottings and musings about a world that gets stranger by the day
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Triptych Ep 2:7 | Berry’s Do Not Be Ashamed, Alexander’s Stay, Mendes’ 1917 (opens the original)
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The Masterpieces 1. Wendell Berry’s DO NOT BE ASHAMED (1967) We had to rerecord this episode for several reasons (without changing the masterpieces), but this gave it added poignancy. The great farmer-poet Wendell Berry died in the intervening weeks (31st Aug 2026) at the age of 92 and so it was all the more special […]
QCombo #22: James Turrell & Clive James’ Maple (opens the original)
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The last time I made one of these QCombos was way back in 2019; I’ve no idea why I stopped, but I thought it might be fun to start up again. (You can find the rest here on Flickr.) BREATHING LIGHT by James Turrell (1943- , USA) If you’ve been following Triptych, we actually discussed […]
An Infectious Plea: The Future Is Peace (opens the original)
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Is human suffering a zero-sum game? Is it a competitive sport? Does one person’s pain render them more worthy of a platform than another’s? Can one person’s suffering justify revenge when another’s identical desire is judged illegitimate? Where, and how, does this all end? Two Potential Enemies In theory, these questions have straightforward answers. Of […]
25 Books: Fiction with Theological Horizons (opens the original)
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God is curiously absent from contemporary fiction. Not surprising I suppose, seeing as he’s absent from much of contemporary life. Or rather, he’s missing from the public square discourse of most bien-pensants. That is quite the surprise when one considers the proportion of human beings, quick or dead, who have never taken issue with his […]
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