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Out Into The Beautiful World
Jul. 19th, 2016 11:33 pmOut Into The Beautiful World by Theodore Dalrymple
An interesting collection of essays on all sorts of topics.
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An interesting collection of essays on all sorts of topics.
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Anything Goes
Apr. 29th, 2015 10:57 pmAnything Goes by Theodore Dalrymple
A collection of the essays of Dr. Dalrymple -- many of which I first read online. Many somewhat occasional.
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A collection of the essays of Dr. Dalrymple -- many of which I first read online. Many somewhat occasional.
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Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple
A collection of essays in two sections. It opens with one about how he has come to retirement age and will be leaving his work in the British slums.
Romancing the Opiates
Mar. 6th, 2012 07:35 pmRomancing the Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy by Theodore Dalrymple
A rather grim book. Dalrymple worked for years as a prison doctor and at a hospital in some of the worst slums in England. So he knows whereof he speaks.
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A rather grim book. Dalrymple worked for years as a prison doctor and at a hospital in some of the worst slums in England. So he knows whereof he speaks.
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age and civilization
Jan. 10th, 2011 05:12 pmI have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.
Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency.
Theodore Dalrymple
Full essay, about book fairs, here.
passive locutions
Dec. 7th, 2010 03:49 pmTheodore Dalrymple discusses the effect of them. I found it hard to remember, in the opening example, that it was the prosecutor talking about the crime, not the defense -- it sounds like someone trying to minimize.
Not With A Bang But A Whimper
Feb. 7th, 2010 07:22 pmNot With A Bang But A Whimper by Theodore Dalrymple
A collection of essays. A sampler, not a thematic collection. But Dalrymple brings his usual wit and insight to all of them, from medical issues in William Shakespeare's plays, to public discourse, to government bureaucracy, to the importance of standard English to slum children, to the psychology of terrorism.
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A collection of essays. A sampler, not a thematic collection. But Dalrymple brings his usual wit and insight to all of them, from medical issues in William Shakespeare's plays, to public discourse, to government bureaucracy, to the importance of standard English to slum children, to the psychology of terrorism.
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Life At The Bottom
Nov. 13th, 2008 06:18 pmLife At The Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
This is a scary book.
The doctor worked for many years in a hospital in a very poor region in Great Britain and in a prison in the same area. It is a collection of essays on various aspects of the "underclass" and how they think and how this came about.
I strongly recommend it to any aspiring writer who wants to lend realism and verisimilitude to his villains.
This is a scary book.
The doctor worked for many years in a hospital in a very poor region in Great Britain and in a prison in the same area. It is a collection of essays on various aspects of the "underclass" and how they think and how this came about.
I strongly recommend it to any aspiring writer who wants to lend realism and verisimilitude to his villains.
