A new book by Patrick Curry, writer on Tolkien, divination and ecology.
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Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life retweeted
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“Fetishising information,” he says, “is deeply disenchanting. Almost everyone is distracted, almost all of the time. Enchantment rarely happens if you are not present for it.” - irishtimes.com/culture/is-co…
Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life retweeted
Delighted to see this @TheTLS review for "Enchantment" (@InEnchantment) by Patrick Curry - "Patrick Curry’s study is insightful about uncovenanted blessings that bring delight."
View the full review online here - bit.ly/36O5q9r. Find out more - bit.ly/2ZWa3wx.
This is Patrick’s daughter Sylva- I make sure he gets every mention here. Thank you, 🙏🏻
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Congratulations to Patrick Curry on the publication of @InEnchantment
An excellent piece in the @irishtimes about our Editor-in-Chief's new book on enchantment (@InEnchantment): irishtimes.com/culture/is-co…
Patrick in the @IrishTimes today!
“Is Covid-19 #lockdown our chance to regain a sense of #wonder?”
irishtimes.com/culture/is-co…
#Enchantment #EnchantmentWonderInModernLife
#PatrickCurry #IrishTimes
Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life retweeted
An excellent piece in the @irishtimes about our Editor-in-Chief's new book on enchantment (@InEnchantment): irishtimes.com/culture/is-co…
Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life retweeted
I should be up for a talk about Enchantment (by @inenchantment) at @SwinSpringFest online. But I'm distracted by the dandelion seeds floating past the window.
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Patrick will be on YouTube with the @SwinSpringFest to talk about Enchantment at 12:30pm today. YouTube link is below! ✨
WELCOME to Day 1 of #swindonspringfest2020
We are starting our #authorconversations with Dr Patrick Curry, author of Enchantment at 12.30pm.
Here's the link to watch youtu.be/CDIi36LlA3Q
@InEnchantment @lowershawfarm @swindonadver @bigbookweekend #swindon #virtualfestival
Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life retweeted
WELCOME to Day 1 of #swindonspringfest2020
We are starting our #authorconversations with Dr Patrick Curry, author of Enchantment at 12.30pm.
Here's the link to watch youtu.be/CDIi36LlA3Q
@InEnchantment @lowershawfarm @swindonadver @bigbookweekend #swindon #virtualfestival
'#Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it [is] always moving yet never leaving anything behind.
Whatever we have been, in some sort we still are.'
(C.S. Lewis) #Enchantment #PatrickCurry
'Only #creative work, communion with #nature and #helping others are #anxiety-free.'
(Cyril Connolly)
#enchantment #enchantmentwonderinmodernlife #cyrilconnolly
3) Such experiences are at once quietly common and overlooked. They are even suppressed, sometimes for surprisingly misguided reasons.
#Enchantment #PatrickCurry #Wonder #EnchantmentWonderinModernLife #Nature #Magic
2) "Saw farmer near Patten, sitting on a snowdrift about fifteen feet high, surrounded by a hundred redpolls. Birds perched on the farmer’s head and shoulders. One sat on knee. Farmer told Grant that he had enjoyed the previous half hour more than any other period in his life".."
1) "There are many and rich experiences of enchantment in, and as, the natural world and its countless avatars. Its sweet benediction shines through even the deeply-ingrained New England laconism of this report, for example, by a Mr E.O. Grant:"...
#Enchantment #PatrickCurry
‘After reading any of your pieces life seems more worth living, and for that I am especially grateful.’
- Zygmunt Bauman, author of Liquid Modernity
#BookReview #Enchantment #EnchantmentWonderinModernlife #PatrickCurry #Goodreads #newbooks #Wonder
Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life retweeted
I have probably and embarrassingly made a hash of explaining some of the concepts picked up from @PeterWohlleben, @BronTaylor, @Monica_Gagliano, @juliabfly, @InEnchantment, and others. But as Oscar once said: "There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about..."
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"...Curry shows how #glamour is a fabricated, false, fake version of #enchantment. His demonstration is extremely #convincing. Reading him, one feels like opening one's eyes wider.'
Ginette Paris, author of 'The #Wisdom of the Psyche'
#PatrickCurry #Enchantment #Reviews #newbook
"...for I felt it opened a way in for people who might be suspicious of the #philosophical and #religious sides of this #experience.'
- Professor John Burnside, St. Andrews University
#Enchantment #PatrickCurry #EnchantmentWonderinModernLife
I found the #book thought-provoking while at the same time relishing its #clarity and accessibility - it can be so hard to talk about this subject without delving in to all kinds of abstract or arcane language - and in the end, #uplifting..."
#Enchantment #PatrickCurry