Paul Gordon,author of the article about Peter Lomas: A quote

I use the word sceptical deliberately for this book owes a great deal to the sceptical tradition within philosophy. This position has nothing to do with an extreme posturing found in some self­ styled postmodernist circles that questions whether we can really know anything, whether there is any such thing as truth. (According to some extreme variants there is no objective truth – except, apparently, the statement that there is none.)

Gordon, Paul (2012-12-15). Face to Face (Kindle Locations 85-88). Paul Gordon. Kindle Edition.

At least tantalize me till it’s light tonight

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Who weeds the grammar now?
I’ll never love again,not whenever,never.
Her hands are always waving,her nose runs all day and her feet tweet nonstop.Is it the New Exercise?
At least tantalize me till it’s light tonight
He gave me a laugh and many sinful emotions
He laughed all the way to the bonk.
I pray for more love.Lord, a shepherd will do.
I generally lay my bards on the table
l left my mark on his back.. scratched again!
I leave no home unconsumed.
I’m just a devil in my own lifeline
I was left by his falter at the altar yet I forgave him everything.
She’s a legend so well defined…she’s never out of her own mind
It was the fleeter of my two feet which arrived at the finishing post.I’ll catch up with it later.
Is that a crutch or are you wimping to meet me?
.I let the flat out to an old hag.She had bags under her eyes and a broomstick in her pocket,Some pocket,hey?
Let’s never poll again.
I’ll never be a dove again.
No,I’ll never write a double negative for you.No,not ever
She said,let’s spit now..but I refused,so she bit my head off with a word.She’s digested the dictionary and needs practice,you see.
His blinkers are perfect.His winks are a pleasure to behold.
Let’s love again before the next millenium.
You keep me mating all of the time.What did I do?
Was it my song?
Did I go wrong?
You keep waiting till the end of the rhymes;
And longer,sometimes.
Cast your spellings onto me and I’ll import them into my head with the aid of a nail file.
What did I do?
What was so bling? s
I have your number alright.I know your type as well as y

Simone de Beauvoir revisited

If I enjoyed any of de Beauvoir’s books it would be her autobiography .The first volume especially

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Perennial Classics) Paperback

Having just noticed she won the Prix Goncourt for the Mandarins I feel a littl eembarrassed by ,t own view that it’s not a true novel for me.However I see the hard work and the mass of material and ideas she deals with as evidence of a very brave  and bold mind.

The later autobiographies are interesting but always I have a sense of too much material,too much information.Of course for historical purposes they are no doubt very useful

About Peter Lomas

About Peter Lomas

Although Peter Lomas was a psychoanalyst he was a rare rebel,a wonderful writer and a master of the language

I read his books regularly for their wisdom and courage.And his stories.Most of all I love his truthfulness

 

“In this regard, the centrality of ethics in human relations, I think Peter has much in common with Emmanuel Levinas, the French Jewish thinker who put ethics at the very heart of our being, as what makes us human beings, ethics in the sense of the priority of the other and our responsibility to that other.  Of course Levinas’s language was not Peter’s, but for myself I still find him inspiring, despite the predictably obscurantist and cliched ways in which his thought has been taken up and the horribly religious-like tone of too many conversations about his work.  Not for the first time is a return to the source called for.”

From the cited article

I Wrote it…Now What?

This looks worthwhile

Barb's avatarChrysalis: Emerging Women Writers

I’m posting a good blog for those of you who’ve done your editing and are ready for self-publishing.  Joleene Naylor has a detailed guide on how to use the KDP resources (Amazon).

This will get you started.

http://selfpubauthors.com/2013/08/16/how-to-publish-with-kdp/

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