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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Shooting the shibboleth
The shooting down of the shibboleth bird was unpremeditated and impulsive, a childlike act of spontaneity, creativity and imagination or, in Coleridge’s own terms, a divine act that asserted individuality and set the mariner apart. The mariner lived on, delivered from anonymity. The rest of the crew, the ‘they’, all died, anonymously, en masse. Whilst the ship of fools went down, redolent of a descent into Hell, he was reborn, destined to proclaim the shocking terror of the truth, a destiny that, ultimately, Coleridge felt he had failed to fulfil in real life.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Man-made to ready-made
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Evola and right thinking
Freedom is a kind of transcendence. The higher self should transcend the lower self and the state should encourage this impulse. This is the transcendence that results from a rising up out of the vegetative ‘One life’.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
As nominal head of the English government, William III of Orange fulfilled the longstanding aspiration of the invaders and collaborationists by chartering the Bank of England in 1694. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arch 2
Further additions to the project, starting with the Gosford Bridge to Buckingham leg of Ogilby's 1675 Oxford to Cambridge route.
John Dunn
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