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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Transgressor
Dante had invoked the felix culpa, happy fall once more. Man not only has the power to breach the cosmic order, but in so doing can re-order the cosmos. He is restating the freedom of the crowned and mitred one. And it was Beatrice who led him to this realisation, to be a transgressor, a disrupter of the cosmic equilibrium, rather than being absorbed into its perpetual and Spinozist harmony.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Bernardus Silvestris, the Cosmographia
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Nature: a beautiful virus
Swinburne presents life as a violent symphony of meeting and killing, encounter and destruction of equilibria. Nature, chaos, is a virus.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
This is an expression of explosive political significance. Dante has attained the power of mind over which no secular or clerical authority can rule. He takes both crown and mitre upon himself. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arc
I will follow these routes and others by map and by cycling and motorcycling along the roads to unearth the archaeology of this ancient Gough map and the later accretions that followed in its path.
John Dunn
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Highways and Byways with Dr John Dunn
YouTube Channel
In search of the historical, quirky and unusual features of the English countryside as seen from the saddle.
Join me as I follow maps, park up and take a look around. CLICK HERE
“Seeking out historical places of interest has given me wonderful motorcycling opportunities over the years… roads and little lanes, through a variety of landscapes that bear the scars, marks and imprints of those that have trodden, worked and fought on the land before us.”
“Any excursion, whether it be by motorcycle, car, bicycle or on foot, is always better for having an object, or goal in mind. I could take no pleasure in riding around just for the sake of it. There has to be a mission.”
“I ride my motorcycle to seek out things ancient, quirky and monumental, taking in the views, and ‘reading’ the landscape,its geology and history, as I do so.”
Original commentary to all videos researched, written and read by John Dunn.
© John Dunn.
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