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Alain de Botton

notions of immortality

February 17, 2010
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The walls come down the hill like two aged arms of the young Fort Canning Centre. People were shooting the Canning Centre, and the two plain two-hundred year old cupolas built by the architect Coleman, and the greens between the walls—with small and large cameras. None came up to the two old walls to see [...]

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back to being Rip…

January 20, 2010
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I’m reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Finding the Flow, along with Natalie Goldberg’s Wild Mind and Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran. All together: Wild Mind when I wake, Finding the Flow in the car, and Tim Robinson at bedtime. Alain de Botton’s book on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work arrived from Amazon yesterday, and I’ll open [...]

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