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An Introduction
+ Heroic materialism
+ Heroic materialism - the sequel ...
+ Brooding about Byzantium
+ "a power of resistance of quite another kind"
+ Meditations on exile
+ The worldliest of all things
+ Feel-good post (with a twist)
+ How I came to understand the present world's plight after reading a 1957 essay
+ A Tale of Two Brain Halves, or: Proust and the Hypothalamus
+ Idolatry
+ What kind of blog-posts could an Easter-Monday yield?
+ Humanism after Darwin (short & frivolous post)
+ Shadow play / vocabulaire des ombres
+ The last one to stay with us / le dernier de tous
+ Old books & newspaper scraps
+ Miscellaneous Objections to Life
+ Apology for the ascetic aesthete
+ Of Ferment & Fragmentation, or: Historical Confusions

True Confessions!

+ S. Swann, Private Investigator
+ Parable of a broken toe
+ Milan, October 2004
+ Pathologies of walking
+The combative melancholiac's guide to Spring
+ Winter light
+ Howling winds at Haworth
+ While updating my CV
+ In praise of snow and folly
+ Aesthetic notes on cathedrals, café-interiors and a BlackBerry
+ "J'aime, j'aime la vie" (Antwerp, Summer & Fall 1986)

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