In discussion with a true believer I asserted that there is no more shame associated with the Western tradition than with others. That indeed this analytical mindset was one that enables the person to understand the viewpoint of another yet maintain their sense of being within that analytical framework. Other frames, other traditions but not …
Author archives: pasdelasbas
Dean and Saskia at the Allotment Shop!
Looking like they ought to look.
Jesus mum
I’m on my way home now It’s not quite getting late But I’m getting quite tired Someone’s been singing about how I put a golden comb in your black hair Jesus Mum I’m sick of you being dead
All possible futures
So I’ve been wanting to write this for some time. It’s something to do with all possible futures. We have been to Cornwall as a family over the recent Easter holidays and on the return journey we stopped in a service station. One of the children had some sort of toasted Italian penny type sandwich …
I dream of Alaigne once more
Well after my fieldwork was completed and towards the end of writing this thesis I had a dream. Alaigne was a river and I was to cross the river. The water level was low compared to what I knew it could be and this was good because I wore Wellington boots that came up to …
I dreamed of Alaigne
“John thinks you are not honest – you don’t really care.” “But I’m here two weeks” I replied, wondering at first who John was at first. [Two weeks to complete this thesis John]
forgery at Wells
To enter the cathedral of Wells you must first pass through the cloister. The south west tower of the cathedral abut the arcades of the cloister. Entering at the back of the nave to your left are the lower rows of dressed masonry stone forming the base of one of the south west tower. Low …
in Wells
As I walked through Wells this evening I saw a man leaning against a car. Who is that walking through town? He thought. I’ll keep an eye on him. This town is bloated with money yet nobody is spending enough to keep it happy. Across the road a figure stands Like those dry appearing higher …
Issac and Abraham
It came to me when talking about the film interstellar with Melissa. That the moment Abraham does not sacrifice his son Isaac is the very moment at which Isaac’s body becomes substituted by his emotional life. Whilst the sacrifice of the body ended it has been the sacrificial emotional life which took its place.
Interstellar – A Charitable Appeal
Interstellar was made by Christopher Nolan of Batman fame. The film was okay to watch but was too ridden with necessary and partially controlling narrative features and symbolic placements. The film is sentimental in a properly gooey fashion and carries with it a message that does nothing other than make a statement of the current …