What Augustine found in the Neoplatonists I have glimpsed in the New Statesman, but like him I do not find there anyone who says ‘Come to me, you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.’
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Exhaust fumes, earwax, and ecclesiology
Who are you? More precisely, what is it that constitutes you? This is the question that lies behind Daisy Hildyard’s elegant and probing The Second Body, published by the stylishly minimalist Fitzcarraldo Editions. We’re generally pretty confident to call our physical bodies part of ourselves even though they’re inhabited by a huge array of micro-organisms,Continue reading “Exhaust fumes, earwax, and ecclesiology”
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