Ciarán Ryan notebook

AA Gill - dyslexic - has never learnt grammar

“I am not clotted with all that classical pedentry, that disgusted of Hove proper English nonsense”

1999

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990723/ai_n14250878

Obituary: Sean Crampton
Independent, The (London), Jul 23, 1999 by Nick Dewey

Since his death the family have discovered among his papers a hand-written reminiscence of the action in which he won the MC that he entitled simply “Battlefield”. Its chief interest lies in Crampton’s vivid recollection of an intense inner experience that occurred in the heat of battle when the principal events of his past life came to him in a flash and he was overwhelmed by an indescribable joy accompanied by the certain conviction of his own immortality. It was this experience that initiated his long spiritual journey, of which he had written more recently (in a beautiful essay on the subject of landscape) that “on pilgrimage you become part of a shared and sacred path and are integrated with the earth made holy by its saints”.

The topology of space mirrors analogy

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990723/ai_n14250892

Anasazi - did they turn to cannibalism?

Frank Collins - SAS - looking for certainties concludes Robert Crampton (?)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KZH/is_2_11/ai_30151732

Sun blacked out in late 530s by a massive volcano? Caused famine etc

Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything (Paperback)
by James Gleick (Author)

Type A personalities - press the button in the lift to close the door - placebo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_personality

Charles Dudley Warner, 1884, “The chopping up of time into rigid periods is an invasion of freedom”

Plautus: “The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish hours!”

Technology was to provide the fabled leisure society* - but we’ve just had to keep up with the machines. We deal with one item of work faster - but then another arrives faster.

Technology = not more lesiure or productivity - but more hours spent looking busy?

Ankore tribe (Uganda?) - doing nothing is not “wasting time”, but “creating time”. By being alive.

*A kind of leisure society for some? In UK - state benefits? etc?

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See also: The end of time - Julian Barbour

Time does not exist. Everything happens all at once. Parallel worlds etc.

We perceive an overlapping set of instants wrote John Gribbon of Barbour’s theory, which gives us an illusion of time moving.

The film strip! Feck.

How do we enter the next frame? Probability? Genes? Who’s lining up the frames?

 http://blog.theexplorerschool.com/2008/01/25/the-lost-army-of-cambyses/

In 2000 Helwan university geology department found arrow and spear remains in the Great Sand Sea. Excited by this various archeologists and geologists including Gail McKinnon and Tom Brown have searched for Cambyses army and found little apart from what are almost certainly Roman army remains. Brown has plotted a possible route but has downgraded the army to a more likely 10,000. The hunt continues.

ARCHIMEDES WOULD have laughed, even sneered, at the simplicity of this little problem. Imagine you are in a rubber dinghy floating in a swimming pool. There is a large bag of stones with you in the boat. You throw the bag into the water, does the level of the pool go up, down, or remain the same?

SCIENCE: Success depends on openness
Independent, The (London), Jun 2, 2000 by Lewis Wolpert

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000602/ai_n14317947

Obituary: Professor F. W. Clayton
Independent, The (London), Dec 24, 1999 by T. P. Wiseman

“It was about 1950 when I first noticed in both Latin and English that there were curious apparent echoes of quotations, conscious or unconscious, inside a single author or between authors, based on associated ideas or words.” Two particular areas came to fascinate him: Horace’s use of astrology, and Shakespeare’s use of the Latin poets.

He worked obsessively with concordances, trying to prove, in those pre-computer days, that the collocations of word and phrase that leaped out at him were not merely random.

mobutu and kabila

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8310

Jean Rostand - “Theories pass; the frog remains.”

Icelandic scholar Sigurdur Nordal:

“It is very pleasant to be a little drunk, on a little pony, in a little rain”

We descend from a group of 2000 people, 40,000 years ago in Africa (they had boats).

Says Dr Marcus Feldman, Stanford

Edmond Safra - murder mystery?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Safra

Small blue gemstones to ward off the veil eye

Licence plate: EJS 555

A sephardi

Banking empire

Lebanon / Brazil / Switzerland