COMMONPLACE BOOK (n.)
a work into which notable extracts from other books are copied;
a compendium of the best that has ever been written, said, or done;
a trove of intellectual wonder & an armoury of audacious thought.
COMMONPLACE BOOK (n.)
a work into which notable extracts
from other books are copied;
a compendium of the best that has
ever been written, said, or done;
a trove of intellectual wonder
& an armoury of audacious thought.
VOLUME I
VOLUME I
is the notes from 2-and-a-half years
of reading; 1,200 quotations from
320 separate authors—including:
Sallust on Liberty, Les Miserables,
Rosa Luxembourg, Eric Hobsbawm, Charles I,
Paradise Lost, the Earl Of Rochester, Rhetorica ad Herennium,
Nikolai Berdyaev, Christopher Dawson, Dostoevsky, Savonarola,
A.D. Hope’s Australia, Untimely Meditations, Molière, Revolt of the Masses,
Darkness At Noon, Vaclav Havel, Waugh’s Decline And Fall, Gatsby, Carlyle’s French
Revolution, King Lear, Brideshead, Modernity on Endless Trial, The Greeks & The Irrational,
The Nine Worthies, J.G. Hamann: Magus of the North, Euripides, Friedrich Schiller, The Gay Science,
Broch’s Sleepwalkers, Stefan Zweig and The World of Yesterday, Heraclitus, Redemption by War, La Setta
d’i Cattivi, Charles Hamilton Sorley, La Vendée, Burke’s French Revolution, Beethoven, Macpherson’s Lament, Nietzsche’s House, Thomas Browne, the Ave Verum Corpus, a Masonic Prayer, Critics of Modernity, Karl Kraus, William Drummond, Zarathustra’s Prologue, The Stones of Venice, Jonathan Swift and the Battle of the Books,
Chesterbelloc, Paul Valéry, The Nature of Gothic, Newman’s Definition of a Gentleman, Daphne and Apollo,
the Tyranny of the Eunuchs, Baudelaire’s Journaux Intimes, Thomas Mann, South Park, Cicero’s Speeches,
T.S. Eliot, Charles Péguy, Dante, Hamlet, Strega Cream and more Hamlet, Ayn Rand, Lucretius on
The Nature of Things, Chateaubriand’s Memoirs, Peter and Wendy, 4 definitions of Acedia,
Pascal’s Pensees, Eugène Delacroix, Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Rupert Brooke,
Waugh on Ruskin, Berlin on Verdi and Tchaikovsky on Brahms, even more Hamlet,
Proudhon’s 'What is Government?', The Accursed Questions,
Ruskin’s Earth Veil, John the Dwarf, a Sicilian Cathedral,
Kenneth Clark’s Young Michelangelo
—and travelling to measure
with our hearts & see
with our eyes...
is the notes from
2-and-a-half years
of reading;
1,200 quotations from
320 separate authors
—including:
Sallust, Les Miserables,
Rosa Luxembourg, Eric Hobsbawm,
Proudhon’s "What is Government?",
The Accursed Questions, Paradise Lost,
the Earl Of Rochester, Rhetorica ad Herennium, A.D. Hope’s Australia, Untimely Meditations, Revolt of the Masses, Darkness At Noon, Vaclav Havel, Waugh’s Decline And Fall, Gatsby, Carlyle’s French Revolution, King Lear, Brideshead, Modernity on Endless Trial, The Greeks & The Irrational, The Nine Worthies, J.G. Hamann: Magus of the North, Euripides, Friedrich Schiller, The Gay Science, Broch’s Sleepwalkers, Stefan Zweig and The World of Yesterday, Heraclitus, La Setta d’i Cattivi, Charles Hamilton Sorley, La Vendée, Burke’s French Revolution, Beethoven, Charles I, Macpherson’s Lament, Thomas Browne, the Ave Verum Corpus, a Masonic Prayer, Critics of Modernity, Karl Kraus and Die Fackel,Baudelaire’s Journaux Intimes, Thomas Mann, South Park, Cicero’s Speeches, Chesterbelloc, Paul Valéry, The Nature of Gothic, Daphne and Apollo, William Drummond, Zarathustra’s Prologue, The Stones of Venice, Jonathan Swift and the Battle of the Books, T.S. Eliot, Charles Péguy, Dante, Hamlet, Strega Cream and more Hamlet, Lucretius on The Nature of Things, Ayn Rand, Chateaubriand’s Memoirs, Peter and Wendy, 4 definitions of Acedia, Waugh on Ruskin, Berlin on Verdi and Tchaikovsky on Brahms, even more Hamlet, Pascal’s Pensees, Eugène Delacroix, Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Rupert Brooke, Christopher Dawson, Dostoevsky, Savonarola, Ruskin’s Earth Veil,
John the Dwarf, a Sicilian Cathedral,
Kenneth Clark’s The Young Michelangelo
—and travelling to measure
with our hearts & see
with our eyes...
Volume I also contains
excerpts, paragraphs,
essays, poems, jokes, anecdotes, paintings, symbols,
inscriptions, epitaphs, maps—
on MORE THAN 375 different subjects,
the most frequent of
which are:
Volume I also contains
excerpts, paragraphs, essays, poems, jokes, stories,
paintings, symbols, inscriptions, epitaphs, maps—
on MORE THAN 375 different subjects,
the most frequent of which are:
– WRITING –
– ART & ARTISTS –
– FREEDOM –
– TRUTH –
– CHRISTIANITY –
– LIFE –
– ACTION –
– HISTORY –
– RELIGION –
– DEMOCRACY –
– MODERNITY –
– EDUCATION –
– WISDOM –
–ARISTOCRACY –
– BOREDOM –
– CULTURE –
– DEATH –
– PHILOSOPHY –
– HAPPINESS –
– THE GREAT WAR –
– TRADITION –
– SUFFERING –
– THE ROMANS –
– KNOWLEDGE –
– WRITING –
– ART & ARTISTS –
– FREEDOM –
– TRUTH –
– CHRISTIANITY –
– LIFE –
– ACTION –
– HISTORY –
– RELIGION –
– DEMOCRACY –
– MODERNITY –
– EDUCATION –
– FAITH –
– WISDOM –
– ARISTOCRACY –
– BOREDOM –
– CULTURE –
– DEATH –
– PHILOSOPHY –
– HAPPINESS –
– THE GREAT WAR –
– TRADITION –
– SUFFERING –
– THE ROMANS –
– KNOWLEDGE –
– EXILE –
– THE GREEKS –
And in preparation
for going through it with me,
quotation by quotation,
IN MY NEW PODCAST—
you can purchase it here:
And in preparation
for going through it with me,
quotation by quotation,
IN MY NEW PODCAST—
you can purchase it here:
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