Hereby a draft chapter from work in progress, a description of an expedition to Ben Lawers in September 2015.
Author: Duncan Spence
Mountaineer, retired bicycle messenger, philosopher, wordsmith, Dutch translator.
January silence
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No metastases
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Finishing what I started
unless testosterone is no longer doing what it once did, its effects remain largely unnoticed, as they blend into the ordinary conduct of life
Munro since diagnosis #183
13:30 – Glas Bheinn Mhòr (M145), 3271ft, 997m
Only one hundred to go!
that giving up is not healthy is always reaffirmed by not doing so
Munro since diagnosis #182
13:30 – Beinn Ime (M118), 3317ft, 1011m
Autumn
You don’t square a circle by replacing the circle with a Lambeg drum
A perfect analysis ….
Well that was predictable. The EU has looked over the British Government’s die in a ditch proposal for a Brexit deal, and has gone “meh”. And as was equally predictable, one of the main sticking points is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson’s plan to give the DUP an effective veto. The terms of the Good Friday Agreement already give the minority of drum bangers the ability to hold the rest of the Northern Irish population hostage. The British Government’s new plan for Brexit would give them the ability to hold the entire island of Ireland hostage. The British Government’s idea of progress is to turn the fate of the island of Ireland over to a bunch of reactionaries who still long for the 17th century.
The position of the DUP is that Northern Ireland must be treated exactly the same as the rest of the UK. Except for the same…
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An old boring argument
Another letter in the paper. This one is quite important.
Too many otherwise intelligent and reasonable people are taken in by simplistic classism because they have never been able to understand the reality of being Scottish.
The mess got messier very quickly — Wee Ginger Dug
The mess got messier very quickly. Yesterday the British Government was mired in a political mess, today it’s mired in a legal mess as well. Today all three judges in the highest Scottish court, the Court of Session, have ruled that the prorogation of parliament was unlawful. The case was brought by a group of […]
Robert the Bruce, historical accuracy and being Scottish
Human beings are hardly able to agree upon what is happening now, so it seems unrealistic to expect them ever to agree about what happened in the past.
We can no longer ask what political action to undertake […] because the question takes for granted what is at stake: it assumes we are capable of acting. But isn’t that precisely the problem? Isn’t the problem first of all becoming capable of acting politically? Of producing the capacity in ourselves? We don’t act based on the mere fact that it is possible or because we have the capacity, and still less because we have the will. The problem is not knowing how to act but first of all making ourselves capable of acting.
David Lapoujade, Aberrant Movements: the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Semiotext(e), 2017.
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