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Persons and Things
Malcolm Guite writes that, central to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s moral thinking, was ‘what he called the sacred distinction between a person and a thing.’ He quotes an 1811 Coleridge essay: ‘The Contra-distinction of PERSON and THING being the Condition and Ground of all Morality… A slave is a person perverted into a thing: Slavery, therefore,…
The Search
Last night we watch ‘Life After Oz’, the latest production from Fabba – a theatre company for adults with learning disabilities. A year after Dorothy has returned from Oz, the lion, tin man, scarecrow and munchkins are anxious. Their land, under the influence of the wicked witch Elphaba, is becoming grey and colourless. They need…
Close to the Heart
Yesterday… …I learnt that a friend has to go to Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge for an ‘Ablation’. Mr Google told me that a cardiac ablation is a treatment for irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias). Catheters are inserted, moved to the correct position inside the heart, and the area that’s causing the arrhythmia is destroyed. A normal heartbeat…
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