Who’s Papa’s little Nietzschean?

by | Apr 21, 2009 | Uncategorized

I was a pre­co­cious brat. I’m sure that does­n’t need stat­ing for most of you, but just in case some of you haven’t met me in person and there­fore could­n’t deduce it, I thought I’d make it clear. Today Mum told me that, aged four, Jehovah’s...

Passover

by | Apr 10, 2009 | Uncategorized

It’s Pesach – Pas­sover – the one Jewish fest­ival I’ve been pretty good about observing ever since I had a rev­el­a­tion play­ing a role­play­ing game by Craig Walker (), iron­ic­ally called Rev­el­a­tions 68:11 (or some­thing, I may have the...

Chanukah, already

by | Nov 13, 2007 | Uncategorized

I didn’t write earlier about the weird­ness of seeing Cha­nukah things in the shops here. (Hmmm. I said I was going to run this journal with a Chicago Manual of Style until I got back from the US but I don’t have it with me. For now I’m...

The people of the Book vs the people of books

by | Apr 6, 2007 | Uncategorized

I really like this post from catvin­cent on reli­gion and The Book.  And I think I have a new .sig: “Those three Peoples of the Book are at war again… All three are read­ing their Book more lit­er­ally, less meta­phor­ic­ally. The pages on...