Site last updated 17 July 2006
The Way to Life - A Tao Te Ching -
Below are first lines from the first dozen of the 81 chapters in the Tao Te Ching written
by Jon Atack. You will soon be able to buy 'The Way to Life - A Tao Te Ching' to read all
81 chapters in full...
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A Tao Te Ching
Updated 17 July 2006
Heart Sings -
A collection of love poetry by Jon Atack, illustrated with prints of the
author’s watercolours and calligraphed by Vivienne Atack, to whom
the poems are addressed...
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Updated 11 February 2006
The John O’Leary Band at The Running Horse -
Not much to add to my earlier review, really. Except to say that they are even better with an
audience. Best quality musicianship, great grooves and good feel....
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Nottingham University
Updated 5 November 2005
The John O’Leary Band at Nottingham University-
In a wonderful scene in The Russian Ark, the camera wheels from a showy theatrical
performance to its audience — Catherine the Great. By gate-crashing an IBM function, Viv and
I managed to see the marvellous John O’Leary Band as if we were royalty at a command
performance...
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O’Leary Band at Nottingham University
Updated 9 October 2005
Vive la Differentiation -
The original sin was tasting the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Eve immediately
invented underwear, and perhaps because of their pants God was so disappointed that he chucked
both her and her man out of Eden...
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Updated 17 July 2005
Regeneration -
After marvellous beginnings, the twentieth century witnessed the gradual evisceration of the
arts....
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Updated 8 July 2005
Dick Heckstall-Smith tribute -
Dick Heckstall-Smith was a significant musician in an era in which music
has had immense significance...
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Updated 16 June 2005
Arrogance and Artistry -
Virtuosity is achieved by people of every type. The great Renaissance sculptor
Benvenuto Cellini boasted that he had committed murder...
Arrogance and Artistry
Heavy ConstruKction -
As the grand old men of Crimson merge fluently with antiquity, it is a wonder to hear that they
refuse to simply fade away...
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Updated 20 March 2005
Site Map -
You can now view the layout of this site via a ‘site map’. The
access keys have also been updated to
include a shortcut to the site map...
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Updated 24 February 2005
Heresy Trials -
The official House of Laity has paved the way for heresy trials in the Church of England,
as reported by the BBC in 10 things that could land your vicar in trouble...
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Updated 19 February 2005
Hitting the Small Time -
Yawn. We are all bored limp with popular culture. Aren’t we? The pert silicone-packed,
airbrushed, pure, synthetic gangsta world of commerciality where everyone is pretending full
speed to be somebody else...
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Updated 16 February 2005
Cream -
In the autumn of 1966 three seasoned musicians came together to form one of the most influential
groups in the history of rock. They were the first band to earn a platinum disc, and over 35
million Cream records have been sold...
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Updated 11 February 2005
Access Keys -
You can now surf this site using access keys. These keyboard shortcuts are intended to help
users who have difficulty in using pointing devices such as a mouse...
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Updated 6 February 2005
Search -
You can now search this site using the google search engine. Simply type in your search
query into the box below, and hit go...
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Updated 4 February 2005
Taste -
An ice-cube manufacturer received a complaint. His trays gave the ice-cubes a bitter taste...
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Updated 31 January 2005
The Meaning of Love -
At long last, Science has proven that love truly exists. Infatuation transforms body
chemistry in measurable ways...
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Updated 30 January 2005
Vedic Physics -
Arts & Letters Daily has long been my homepage. Every day it turns up a broad range
of mind-boggling material...
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Updated 26 January 2005
Uncertain Realities -
A version of this letter appeared in New Scientist, 25 September 2004...
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Updated 23 January 2005
Power and Belief -
A dear friend once assured me that the fascination of the Hitler cult for occult beliefs is
irrelevant, because Hitler was simply a figure-head.
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Dan’s Disc -
Here is the listing for the compilation CD that celebrates my son Daniel Alexander’s birth,
along with a smattering of commentary...
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Album Reviews: Funkadesi -
My friend Carlos Cornier plays congas with an ensemble in Chicago called Funkadesi...
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Updated 16 January 2005
Angst v The Teletubbies -
Caught between. One side, the indecipherable angst that tries to drink or drug itself
to life in death. At the other side, Teletubby art. Painting is dead: so I must paint...
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Mystical Atheism -
In 1811, the poet Shelley was sent down from Cambridge University for publishing a pamphlet in
which he espoused atheism.
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Updated 15 January 2005
