John Baker’s Blog

In this piece from Dick Jones Patteran Pages he responds to a grim physical illness and the prospect of the debilitating effects of powerful immunosuppressants:
And yet, for all my hopes for future endurance, I need powerfully to disengage myself from both past and future as the principal determinants of present functioning. I need to locate [...]

In Camus’ The Plague (La Peste), towards the end of the novel, when Tarrou is dying of the plague, looked over by his friend, Dr Rieux, the following description occurs:
“Drink.”
Tarrou drank, then slowly lowered his head on to the pillow.
“It’s a long business,” he murmured.
Rieux clasped his arm but Tarrou, whose head was averted, showed [...]

I know it’s boring but this blog is broken at the moment. I’m working on it and it should look fine from your end, but I don’t have constant access at my end. It might be that, if you post a comment, I won’t see it immediately and it may hang around in cyberspace for [...]

Modernism was, of course, concerned with the modern world. But it made a necessary distinction between the modern and the Modernist. The modern was a matter of period and historical phase; the Modernist a matter of art and technique, a peculiar twist of vision.
Modernism brought together, married, dallied with, rejected and played out the interconnections [...]