Notes from Ceylon
Jottings, rants and book reviews from a place that no longer exists.
27 April 2024
A Very Outdated Future
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The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester Another of those classics of science fiction (like this one ) that I should have read when I was a teen...
24 April 2024
Of What They Had Not
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For what the Protection of Absolute Monarchy is, what kind of Fathers of their Countries it makes Princes to be, and to what a degree of ...
23 April 2024
Taking Our Knox
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An Historical Relation of Ceylon by Robert Knox Robert Knox in the Kandyan Kingdom by E.F.C. Ludowyk I don’t know whether they still t...
19 April 2024
Behind the Veil
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The Turkish Embassy Letters by Mary Wortley Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu, a beautiful, frankly spoken liberal feminist, would probably have fi...
13 April 2024
Civilizing the Reluctant
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Guns, Taverns & Tea Shops by S.A. Meegama This book, written by a left-leaning scholar and retired bureaucrat, puts before the general r...
21 March 2024
The Art of the Potboiler
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Sanctuary By William Faulkner There is some exquisite writing in this book. Faulkner’s prose conjures a unique world, with its own vividly r...
03 March 2024
A Traitor’s Testament
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Garbage. The author writes poorly, has no psychological insight (apparent from the second sentence of the...
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