Ciarán Ryan notebook

http://www.archive.org/audio/xspf_player.php?collectionid=Flann

What’s the technique here? Neil’s doing his performance slowly? - it’s then sped up?

Philippe Starck - 1998/1999 - classic lemon squeezer - Juicy Salif.

Moral transformation through design? And mail order.

Also designed Asahi Beer Hall - Tokyo

A good object says Starck: “renders its service with grace”

Dr Skud is his bestselling fly-swatter.

http://www.philippe-starck.com/

Lots of literary styles. America’s first post-modernist novel. The journey of a black American man - from poverty and college to jazz and riots.

Peter Brunt - ancient historian. June 23 1917 - November 5th 2005.

Guardian obituary 28 November 2005 - by Oswyn Murray.

Oxford professor

Innate sympathy with the roman proletariat. Book: Italian Manpower 225BC-AD14 (1971) (conclusions published as Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic)

One of the last great English positivists (every question has an answer - and only one) - he modelled his speaking style on Edward Gibbon.

“He retired early, giving most of his books away on the grounds that there was nothing left to discover, and research was useless since he had exhausted the subject.”

Ghost Story for Christmas - BBC - 1970’s tv adaptations of MR James’ ghost stories.

A warning to the curious etc