The meaning crisis and language - how our inability to ‘believe’ myth and metaphor has left us unable to understand ourselves
Only thin smoke without flame
From the heaps of couch-grass;
Yet these will go onward the same
Though dynasties pass.
Thomas Hardy In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
I was brought up in a religious home. Like many people who did of my generation, I got to a certain age and became aware of the apparently preposterous nature of what a lot of people I knew be…
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