Round Trip
Another fine sunny day which I took advantage of by going on a round trip to Faversham and Sittingbourne.
In Faversham I bought a couple of books from charity shops, Voltaire’s “Candide” (Dover) and Thomas De Quincey “Confessions Of An English Opium Eater” (Penguin Classics). I also bought some more cherry and vanilla pipe tobacco from a shop I know that stocks it.
I then went to Sittingbourne to have lunch, and visit the Summoner pub for a palliative drink. I also had a drink in the Red Lion ,as they have a digital jukebox, which has an avant garde jazz section ,so i put on Pharoah Sanders "Thembi" and Herbie Hancock "Maiden Voyage" to annoy the punters.
On the way I took a book to read, . “Modern Political Philosophy” by Alan Brown (Pelican) , following on from the excellent Justice series on the BBC. The chapter on Utilitarianism is most apt, as one of the lectures from Harvard was on Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism.
Had a strange dream last night. I was a member of one of the teams competing on University Challenge and when we had to introduce ourselves I said my name and that I was reading Philosophy and Cultural Studies. I turned round to see my colleagues had morphed into rhesus monkeys. It was then I woke up!
In Faversham I bought a couple of books from charity shops, Voltaire’s “Candide” (Dover) and Thomas De Quincey “Confessions Of An English Opium Eater” (Penguin Classics). I also bought some more cherry and vanilla pipe tobacco from a shop I know that stocks it.
I then went to Sittingbourne to have lunch, and visit the Summoner pub for a palliative drink. I also had a drink in the Red Lion ,as they have a digital jukebox, which has an avant garde jazz section ,so i put on Pharoah Sanders "Thembi" and Herbie Hancock "Maiden Voyage" to annoy the punters.
On the way I took a book to read, . “Modern Political Philosophy” by Alan Brown (Pelican) , following on from the excellent Justice series on the BBC. The chapter on Utilitarianism is most apt, as one of the lectures from Harvard was on Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism.
Had a strange dream last night. I was a member of one of the teams competing on University Challenge and when we had to introduce ourselves I said my name and that I was reading Philosophy and Cultural Studies. I turned round to see my colleagues had morphed into rhesus monkeys. It was then I woke up!