Thinking , Fast and Slow
‘Thinking, fast and slow’ is the title of the famous book by Daniel Kahneman, which explains the way our brain
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‘Thinking, fast and slow’ is the title of the famous book by Daniel Kahneman, which explains the way our brain
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 readingThe Origins of the SNP The history of political parties with all their conflicts, splits, ideological positions, and power plays,
Continue readingNeil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable,
Continue reading“Some five years ago I received a letter from the late Lord Bracken (whom I had then not met)
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