This exchange comes from Saturday 22 March 1986 at Newport. Mr Adie had given the morning address, and now, at lunch and again at supper, people would bring questions. This […]
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Don’t put one tension up against another
This is from the meeting of Tuesday, 11 October 1983, at Newport. The second question of the evening came from Annabelle. I have not even tried to accurately render the […]
Read moreDithering
Formulation and Dithering It is a beautiful, entertaining word: “dithering”; quite one of the modest glories of the English language. You could spend the afternoon in nature, on a […]
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Formulations
Formulations play an enormous part in our lives. They are necessary: whenever we speak we use formulations: “Good morning”, “I am …”, “Would you like …”, “Can you tell me […]
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Mrs Adie and the “Rum Customer”
Part One This question and answer come from Tuesday 9 March 1982, at Newport. The “question”, almost a manifesto, took around thirty minutes. The basic message of this marathon effort […]
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Pre-publication Review – “A Child of the Sun” by Pierce Butler
A Child of the Sun, Pierce Butler, Beech Hill, Mount Desert ME, 2016 (I have been given a pre-publication of this book: it is not slated for release until […]
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The Bride of Lammermoor
One well educated person I know considers The Bride of Lammermoor to have been Sir Walter Scott’s greatest novel. I think it is a great novel, and an underestimated one, […]
Read moreSugar is a Plague
I am absolutely serious. Sugar is a plague. To take just one example, on 20 February 2016, Australia newspapers reported that “Children as young as five are having all their […]
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Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope
Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope: Notes of Meetings in Paris and New York, 1935-1939 and 1948-1949, Book Studio, London, 2012 271pp. comprising a chronology from 1865 to […]
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Mr Adie on Bankruptcy and Catastrophe in general
This is from the meeting of Wednesday 2 April 1986, in response to a man who was on the brink of bankruptcy. Mr Adie said: “You tell yourself that it […]
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