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Feb. 23, 1821. Definitely not writ in water.
John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome, aged 25, two hundred years ago today. Requiescat in pace. Whenever I think of famous dead...
Richard Farr
Feb 23, 2021


Footnotes to Plato?
Alfred North Whitehead is often (mis-) quoted as saying that all philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato. I was asked the other day...
Richard Farr
Jan 8, 2021


RIP John le Carré - brilliant and underrated to the last
I met him when I was eleven or twelve, because one of his sons was in my class. He arrived in a Rolls Royce, talked affably in the...
Richard Farr
Dec 14, 2020
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