The conditions of faith, she wrote, the reason inherent in truth . . Les conditions de la foi.. la raison inhérente à la vérité, Christina Stead Prize &c 2001
Feb 25, 2023 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
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Pondering the most socially & politically powerful tropes and memes (social constructs - please see R Dawkins’ “The Selfish Gene (you what?),” 1976) of the crazy-arsed 1880’s City of London we may stumble back some decades down a handy Memory Lane 2 our secondary school studies
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So here the psycho-cultural (mental) foundation of the SA Law Society’s grandiose and socio-economically devastating Theory of Diminished Responsibility:
“In traditional literature a tragic hero is utterly vicious but in The Mayor of Casterbridge, Michael Henchard is not the..
