We drown ourselves in our own puddles
“No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.” Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum This is the best quote I heard in September, and I am going to explore it in […]
Achievement and OCD dogma
I felt low and listless yesterday after the buzziest of bank holiday Monday nights. A friend and I went to see John Vaillant and Colm Tóibín speak at the Cambridge Literary Festival, hosted at The Cambridge Union. I was really heading to the event to see Colm Tóibín, who is a great literary hero of […]