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L'esprit de l'escalier

Dolan Cummings

Essays looking behind and beyond the long shadow of the 20th century

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Facts are funny things. They protest too much about their reliability. The things we know with most confidence do not announce themselves as such. They are woven into the fabric of our learning and experience. Those things we learn as facts...

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Disenchantment and the Devil

Sometimes, when I’m walking in the countryside, I like to imagine away all traces of the modern world. Roads, pylons, buildings. Other people in fluorescent Gore-Tex and their insufficiently feral dogs. I like to imagine I am wandering thro...

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Prometheus and providence

According to the myth of Prometheus, the Titan stole fire from the gods and gave it to men. For this, he was punished by being chained to a rock and having his liver eaten by an eagle, only for it to grow back to be eaten again and again. M...

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Are we there yet?

Much was made last year of Keir Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech. The prime minister was widely accused of channelling Enoch Powell. And leaving aside the political dimension, which I discussed in an earlier essay, this was true at th...

3 months ago
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What we talk about when we talk about phones

Once upon a time, being ‘on the phone’ meant making or taking a phone call, with an implication that you would shortly be off the phone. Of course, you could be ‘always on the phone’, whether as a talkative teenager or a hardworking salesma...

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  • Dolan Cummings

    Dolan Cummings writes untimely essays and uncalled-for fiction. His novels are ‘The Pictish Princess ..and other stories from before there was a Scotland’, ‘Gehenna: a novel of Hell and Earth’ and ‘That Existential Leap: a crime story’.

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