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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Lightly Peated
Whisky, Blabber 'n' Smoke
Neil M Gunn
Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 7
Individual TranscendenceGunn’s pathway to Zen There are two doctoral theses on Gunn. One, by Christopher Stokoe (2007)¹, looks at the
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 6
The History Novels The Remote Past, The Clearance, The Sea Neil Gunn never liked history when he was at school,
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 5
Gunn’s Early Novels The Plight of the Highlands Sometimes an author’s troubled child reveal more about them than their successes.
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 4
The Wisdom of Boyhood Young Art & Old Hector Neil Gunn classified three of his novels as ”wisdom of boyhood”.
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 3
The Wisdom of Childhood Gunn as a Young Boy I am on holiday in Lanzarote in an apartment overlooking a
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 2
The Highland Meta-NovelThe Organisation of Neil Gunn’s Novels The title for this piece is borrowed from Christopher Stokoe’s thesis¹, which
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The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn and the SNP
The Origins of the SNP The history of political parties with all their conflicts, splits, ideological positions, and power plays,
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The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn
Neil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable,
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The Making of Tormore – Finding a Site
“Some five years ago I received a letter from the late Lord Bracken (whom I had then not met)
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