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GUIDANCE NOTES FOR TALK ON "HOMER'S ILIAD BOOK TWO" - FIRST SESSION OF 24/06/26

George Chapman, the Elizabethan translator of the Iliad, highly praised by Keats in his short poem “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”, has an…
3 hrs ago•Alexander Reynolds

HOMER'S ILIAD - FIRST TALK ON BOOK TWO (24/06/26)

The audience for the Homer talks seems to be holding up pretty well, so with this session I am pushing on into Book Two, retaining the same…
3 hrs ago•Alexander Reynolds

2:20:32

REPORT FROM 'PLANET X'

The following lines are another instance of an X post that ran on so long that, midway through writing it, I felt that I would have done better to write…
Jun 21•Alexander Reynolds

GUIDANCE NOTES FOR TALK ON MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ'S NOVELS OF THE 1990S - SESSION OF 17/06/26

§ By the end of the previous talk, I had sketched out the lineaments of a number – perhaps too great a number – of ways in which Houellebecq’s novels of…
Jun 17•Alexander Reynolds

TALK ON MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ'S NOVELS OF THE 1990S - SESSION OF 17/06/26

Jun 17•Alexander Reynolds

2:22:17

ON THE 208TH APHORISM OF NIETZSCHE'S 'BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL' AND CERTAIN OF ITS IMPLICATIONS

This audio recording represents another “hors serie” addition to the concurrent series of three podcasts.
Jun 15•Alexander Reynolds

2:55:12

GUIDANCE NOTES FOR DISCUSSION SPACE ON THE 208TH APHORISM OF NIETZSCHE'S 'BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL', TO BE HELD ON THE X PLATFORM AT 5 PM ON…

ONE The following guidance notes consist just in a reproduction of the relevant Nietzsche “aphorism” - in fact, in this case, a short essay - along with…
Jun 13•Alexander Reynolds

ONCE AGAIN ON THE ANTI-IMMIGRATIONIST REPURPOSING OF IMMIGRATIONIST INSTITUTIONS

Hopefully, the following lines do not count as a breaking of my promise that the previous post would be “my last word” on the Vickrum Digwa / Henry…
Jun 12•Alexander Reynolds