Chores Done

Decided to the vacuuming today as cousin will be at home tomorrow watching the sport and some fight match. Yea , totally boring as far as i am concerned. I will do upstairs tomorrow, as i have deferred my Ashford visit to today.

However, typical May Day weekend weather. Dull, overcast and cool. At least, the visit is indoors in the County Square shopping centre.

Saturday Music Selection - Buffy Inspired

LJfriend pigshitpoet sent me a message with ths compilation from suchaprince and hence here are four cool tracks from it.

Starting with this track from the last Bond film.

Adele - Skyfall

Next up

P.J Harvey -In The Dark Places

I love this tune as well, new to me as well -

Emily Jane White - Never Dead

And finally, Silver Swans - Anyone's Ghost

Enjoy.

Book 25 - Iris Murdoch "Sartre : Romantic Rationalist"

Iris Murdoch "Sartre : Romantic Rationalist" (Vintage)





Murdoch's short, insightful book offers a view not just of Satre's philosophy or his writing, but of these taken together to the point where the subject of the book is something more like Sartre's "outlook," where the man and his work sometimes even function as a stand-in for existentialism and a style of response to the modern world.

Murdoch focuses primarily on Satre's novels, using them as a way to grasp Sartre's positive vision for how we are to live in the world as envisaged by the existentialist, where man [sic] is an absolute value, positing value and seeking an impossible ("man is a useless passion") condition of wholeness in an inhospitable world.

The argument occasionally veers in the polemical, but only barely, and this was fine with me since she articulates well the shortcomings of Sartrean existentialism. The only time I disagreed with her was when she claimed his plays fell less victim to the "thesis first, then the art" problem that plagues his novels.

Today's Finds

Whilst in Ashford doing my visit to the indoors shopping centre i perused a few charity shops, and in the PDSA one found two goodies for ninety nine pence each, a book and a CD.
These are -