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Egoless autofiction or the self-erasing memoir: Nan Shepherd’s ‘The Living Mountain’

Posted on 16/03/2025 by alasdairflett

In The Living Mountain Nan Shepherd inverts her eye, but it’s not her mind we see but Mind itself. It is a theory of the mind from a particular mind mode. Mind minus ident and the idem from the idiosyncratic. … Continue reading →

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The Wexford-Pembrokeshire Way or a Hiberno-Welsh Odyssey

Posted on 01/06/2024 by alasdairflett

These are trying times indeed. I’ve been watching connected criminal proceedings at the Glasgow Sheriff Court as part of my job as a trainee civil litigation solicitor. On the third day observing I had cycled back down to Carlton Place … Continue reading →

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English Road

Posted on 30/08/2023 by alasdairflett

I wouldn’t exactly recommend the Camino Ingles in England, even though overall it was enjoyable. The route follows what is thought to be the path taken by pilgrims from the south before they departed from Great Britain and onto mainland … Continue reading →

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The materiality of faith

Posted on 20/12/2022 by alasdairflett

Working in a Cathedral, I think, does push one to examine Christianity and its various forms more often than the average person. Probably I am the sort of person who thinks about Christianity on a level above average for the … Continue reading →

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Presence and precedent

Posted on 23/05/2022 by alasdairflett

It wasn’t until day two of the pilgrimage that I got a moment to myself to log an entry in my journal. My first epistle stems from Wooler bus station where a Borders Bus has just pulled out of the … Continue reading →

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From St Magnus to St Mungo

Posted on 06/11/2020 by alasdairflett

You may have read a few blogs ago about my endeavour to create a repository of all human history as the ultimate pub quiz database, entitled “General Knowledge” and consisting of dozens of roughly seven-minute videos starting with early man … Continue reading →

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The bleary pilgrim

Posted on 21/08/2017 by alasdairflett

Bundled into the Corsa. Beltless, unshaven and woozy. Despite its lack of a working radio I still love this car. The defunct Blaupunkt reads “SAFE” in all-caps instead of channel, or frequency. It couldn’t display track number; in this respect, … Continue reading →

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