Herry's Journal

A selection of writings, speeches, photographs and events as well as some of my favourite literary passages.

Thursday, 16 January 2020

The Story of the Raphael Seat

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The Raphael Seat and brick piers The Raphael Seat is, in fact, a large piece of sculpture, and now occupies the space in which for some...
Friday, 27 December 2019

Hannah Arendt on Lies and Propaganda

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When I was in grade school, we learned the very basics of how the  Third Reich  came to power in the early 1930s. Paramilitary gangs terro...
Monday, 16 December 2019

King James' Bible and the Book of Common Player

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The King James' Bible at Litchfield Having attended a meditation on the life of William Tyndale at Bossington Church recently, I h...
Monday, 2 December 2019

William Tyndale - the Translator of the Bible

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The Authorised Version of King James' Bible, published in 1611, was translated from the Latin and Hebrew by six committees of scho...
Thursday, 28 November 2019

Favourite Paintings - Peter Breughel Netherlandisch Proverbs

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Peter Brueghel the Elder - Nederlandisch Proverbs I am sometimes given to complaining that modern paintings seem to have no meaning or ...
Saturday, 9 November 2019

Favourite Paintings - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - Peter Breughel the Elder

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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder W.H. Auden,  Musée des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never w...
Monday, 30 September 2019

Some Inadequate Words on Grief

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I am not able to write with any authority on grief as I have never experienced it. But others have and do. Instead, I often give friends wh...

Do You Understand Climate Change?

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Katrin Juliane Meissner 27 September at 21:49 With so many people hitting the streets for climate strike and all the recent attack...
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Thursday, 8 August 2019

For the Love of Dogs

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I have long been troubled by our attitude to dogs, but it's heresy to question extreme dog-centric behaviour and I content myself with ...
Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Favourite Paintings - The Parisian Apartment

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“The dark second-floor apartment of the house in Market Square was shot through each day by the naked heat of summer: the silence of th...
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