Notes from Ceylon
Jottings, rants and book reviews from a place that no longer exists.
26 May 2026
Pope Leo v. the Robot Overlords
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Is it wrong to think it's love / When it tries the way it does? An Anglo-Catholic friend of mine just sent me a link to Magnifica Humani...
03 February 2026
An Odd, Cold Fish
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Footprints on Water by Bernd Pflug Colombo, 2024, Perera Hussein Publishing House The Ceylon Civil Service, long sadly defunct, was lucky in...
05 January 2026
Sri Vikrama Maduro
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Sri Vikrama Rajasinha’s captured throne From about 1812 until 1815, members of the Kandyan nobility conspired with a foreign power, the Unit...
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01 January 2026
A.G. Fraser, Missionary Imperialist
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Fraser of Trinity & Achimota by W.E.F. Ward Alec Garden Fraser was a legendary headmaster at Trinity College, Kandy, an elite boy’s scho...
03 November 2025
Pillaiyar’s Portrait Painter
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The words below were delivered yesterday over Mahen’s remains. There was no PA and quite a bit of unavoidable noise. People told me later ...
08 June 2025
From Hippo, with Love
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Confessions St Augustine This is, apparently, the world’s first autobiography. The parts of the narrative that deal with the author’s pers...
30 May 2025
Digital Dualism
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When people project their thoughts along what even we greybeards no longer call the Information Superhighway, nuance and subtlety seem to ge...
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