Thinking , Fast and Slow
‘Thinking, fast and slow’ is the title of the famous book by Daniel Kahneman, which explains the way our brain
Continue readingWhisky, Blabber 'n' Smoke
‘Thinking, fast and slow’ is the title of the famous book by Daniel Kahneman, which explains the way our brain
Continue readingWhisky and Scotland The Bit About Whisky “To the make of a piper’ says Neil Munro ‘go seven years of
Continue readingI usually skip past any paragraph the starts with: “the word: uisge-beatha comes from the Gaelic and means ‘the water
Continue readingIndividual TranscendenceGunn’s pathway to Zen There are two doctoral theses on Gunn. One, by Christopher Stokoe (2007)¹, looks at the
Continue readingThe History Novels The Remote Past, The Clearance, The Sea Neil Gunn never liked history when he was at school,
Continue readingGunn’s Early Novels The Plight of the Highlands Sometimes an author’s troubled child reveal more about them than their successes.
Continue readingThe Wisdom of Boyhood Young Art & Old Hector Neil Gunn classified three of his novels as ”wisdom of boyhood”.
Continue readingThe Wisdom of Childhood Gunn as a Young Boy I am on holiday in Lanzarote in an apartment overlooking a
Continue readingThe Highland Meta-NovelThe Organisation of Neil Gunn’s Novels The title for this piece is borrowed from Christopher Stokoe’s thesis¹, which
Continue readingA brief introduction to the series I have written few pieces about the novels of Neil Gunn even though they
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