โ€˜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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Enmeshmemt: #1961Club

Etruscan sculpture from Pyrgi, ca 350 BC, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch. Penguin, 1963 (1961). โ€˜I am a severed head such as primitive tribes anโ€ฆ

Calmgrove Books

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, itโ€™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 Brunoโ€™s Dream by #IrisMurdoch #books #BookSky

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Just put my abstract in for the 2026 international Iris Murdoch conference โ€ฆ

The railways of Iris Murdoch ๐Ÿคฉ #IrisMurdoch

โ€œThe #novelist #IrisMurdoch, whose lengthy, involved, brilliant #novels are probably the kind of thing most people donโ€™t read any more, understood #attention better than most.โ€ Well, I know some people who still read her. Otherwise this piece on our #attentiondeficit by #MarkKingwell is very good.

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Moral Mysteries | The Point Magazine

โ€œIt is always a significant question to ask about any philosopher: what is he afraid of?โ€ wrote Iris Murdoch in her slim work of moral philosophy, The Sovereignty of Good.

The Point Magazine
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
โ€œ #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.โ€ - #IrisMurdoch