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A quick post, mostly a note to self, about different meanings of the word "tradition". As regular readers will know, I'm all about tradition, so I'm interested in its different and overlapping senses.
(Isn't that interesting in itself, that so many words have different and overlapping senses-- as though meaning is inherently plural and ...
And so our Advent journey begins!
Note: As has fairly frequently happened on this blog, I started writing this as a standalone blog post and decided towards the end that it would have to be the first instalment in a series.
I'm a compulsive compiler of lists and records. For instance, I have a spreadsheet of all the films I can remember seeing, which I regularly ...
The Irish nationalist tradition has given rise to a great wealth of poetry and ballad-- untold thousands of ballads and poems. Many (perhaps most) are indifferent, or even doggerel. Of the rest, their literary value is on a continuum-- many have the charming crudity appropriate to ballads, many have flashes of brilliance in this or that line or verse, and some of them are gem...
I'm reading a dystopian novel right now, and it's got me thinking of two different sorts of dystopianism; Brave New World dystopianism and 1984 dystopianism.
Both novels are masterpieces, of course. I read Brave New World when I was very young (maybe even pre-teen). Although I've never re-read it, many aspects...
