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Collective Responsibility

January 21, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

A fire killed 27 in a nightclub, injuring many more. Yet the death toll was 64. Then a sports newspaper investigated the circumstances of the fire and found government corruption on a mind-numbing scale. How come it was a sports newspaper? How did they have the resources to do it? How did their management approve it?

Two years ago today: Baptistery Window with 195 lights of stained glass designed by John Piper
Coventry Cathedral © Simon Robinson 2019
Fuji X-T3 | Fuji XF18-55 F2.8-4 R LM OIS | 42 mm | 1/6s | f/5.6 | ISO 160 | handheld1
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Ignobility Index

June 16, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We heard the siren call of the seals this afternoon. Pod, rookery or harem, there were upwards of a dozen of the pinnipeds basking in the diffuse light on rocks exposed by a very low tide.

It was befitting of Bloom’s Day to see the seals in Sandycove where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. ‘A sleek brown head, a seal’s, far out on the water, round’ was his description of Buck Mulligan in Ulysses. Could this have been inspired by the Sandycove ancestors of these seals?

Sandycove Seals
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