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the end of the affair (opens the original)
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I’ll be back in London briefly for Verdurin’s death symposium on October 3rd, organised with . Our speakers include theologian , Vedic astrologer Maya Pettersen and philosopher David Roden. I’ll be talking about some of my PhD work on the martyrdom/eschatology link (perhaps for the only time, so don’t miss it if you’ve had a burning desire to know what I’ve been secretly working away at in various libraries for the last couple years.) Tic
Zanzibar diaries II (opens the original)
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Friday 7th AugustI’m leaving Zanzibar today and heading to Ethiopia, which I’m slightly daunted by. War broke out in Tigray last week and I’m meant to be flying into the city where the Tigray People’s Liberation Front are headquarted on Tuesday and I’m starting to think this may not be such a great idea. It also hadn’t occurred to me that I should get some vaccinations (I’m not necessarily opposed, I just don’t like needles so I’ve been avoiding getting all the childhood ones I missed and failed
Zanzibar diaries (opens the original)
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Hello. This is a very long post (11,500 words, maybe my longest Substack post?) which began as a daily diary about Zanzibar but went off on tangents about dream interpretation, addiction, madness, suicide, visions, demons and other such things. As a travelogue, it records a week in Paje, swimming in the Indian Ocean, monkeys in mahogany forests, three days in Stone Town and my arrival yesterday in Nungwi. I might write a second diary about Nungwi. After this week, I’ll get the ferry to Dar es Sa
the fire and the rose are one (opens the original)
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Two summers ago I wrote about a book called The Fire and the Rose are One by Benedictine monk Dom Sebastian Moore. I wrote it when I was just out of the psychiatric ward, having had what the Italian doctors called ‘un episodio affettivo di tipo misto con caratteristiche psicotiche’—not what you want to hear. Reading that “essay” back, their diagnosis makes more sense. It’s mostly nonsense and riddled with spelling mistakes (which I attribute to a dose of delorazepam which would never have been p
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