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It’s All About the Hat
Yesterday morning we visited a garden centre. Predictably there were Halloween pumpkins on display – together with spiders, bats, skeletons… and witches’ hats. There was also a Christmas display – with Christmas carols playing! There were lights, nutcracker soldiers, sparkly trees, prancing reindeer… and Father Christmas hats. Later we visited Titchwell Nature Reserve. Folks were…
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…
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