‘I am a severed head such as primitive tribes and old alchemists used to use...'
I reviewed 'A Severed Head' by #IrisMurdoch for the #1961Club and #IrisMurdoch26
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How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/12/iris-murdoch-imagination/

1 Current read: Discognition by #SteveShaviro (so far, it’s excellent) 2 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by #RichardRhodes 3 TBD; probably Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by #JeffreyJKripal 4 Bruno’s Dream by #IrisMurdoch #books #BookSky

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:so5qaxrby4lta7ltcll3hzzr/post/3mj37sv2f4s2p

“The #novelist #IrisMurdoch, whose lengthy, involved, brilliant #novels are probably the kind of thing most people don’t read any more, understood #attention better than most.” Well, I know some people who still read her. Otherwise this piece on our #attentiondeficit by #MarkKingwell is very good.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mh4brhlkxk2k

Moral Mysteries | The Point Magazine
https://thepointmag.com/criticism/moral-mysteries/
#IrisMurdoch

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. #irismurdoch #artist #pixelfedart

Why You

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/11/why-you/

Iris Murdoch and the Natural World — March 15 – May 10, 2026, online https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/10/iris-murdoch-and-the-natural-world-march-15-may-10-2026-online/ #calendar #event #events #IrisMurdoch #online #upcoming

“ #Words are the most subtle %symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. The living and radical nature of %language is something which we forget at our peril.” - #IrisMurdoch