— January 4, 2010—
Ned Beauman’s Epitaph is a weekly tribute to pioneers and heavyweights who died on this day in history, and the unexpected coincidences that bind them together
T.S. Eliot with his sister and cousin, Photograhy by Lady Ottoline Morrell, Date unknown National Portrait Gallery, London
In Hinduism there is a word, mahavit, for someone who has learnt the theory of a religion but hasn't yet applied it to the practice of his daily life. Whether its usual connotation is more like "cautious observer" or "slouchy dilletante", I don't know enough to say, but either way, inherent in it is a slight tension. If you believe, then why not live as if you believe? And if you don't believe, then why waste all that time i...
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