Tag Archives: John Polkinghorne

The Castle…of Oz?

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Patrick Miles

Followers may remember that last year I also worked on a book with mathematical physicist-theologian John Polkinghorne, derived from a year’s conversations we had about his views on eschatology (i.e. nothing less than the life and death of humans, animals … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged armed forces, Botcham's Beardificator, bureaucracy, Cambridge City Council, computers, copyright, Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, databases, email, eschatology, EU Directive on Term of Copyright, Fogeyism, Franz Kafka, John Polkinghorne, Occam', Occam's Razor, programmers, publishers, Publishers at Large, self-publishing, sociopaths, submissions, The Castle, The Net, The Wizard of Oz, totalitarianism, websites, Yellow Brick Road | 3 Comments

Some notes on orthodoxy

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Patrick Miles

A very happy New Year to all Calderonia’s subscribers, followers, and casual viewers! (If you are one of the latter, please consider subscribing top right.) This is ‘the year’… Following an almost complete absence of response to my last reminders … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged Animal Farm, biographies, Brimstone Press, Charles Dickens, Clays Ltd, comments, design of boats, George Calderon, George Orwell, Jane Austen, Jenny Uglow, John Dewey, John Polkinghorne, orthodoxy, publishers, publishing, Ruth Scurr, Sam&Sam, Victoria Beckham, William Shakespeare | 5 Comments

Is a dog literally…forever?

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Patrick Miles

An alternative title to this post would be: ‘Why are there no cats’ cemeteries?’ Three weekends running we have visited local stately homes that were inhabited in the Edwardian period, and each of them had a Pets Cemetery in its … Continue reading →

Posted in Edwardian character, Edwardian English, Edwardian literature, Edwardian marriage, Modern parallels, Personal commentary | Tagged 'Kay's Crib', animal souls, Archie Ripley, biographies, biography, Bunty, cats, comments, Dardanelles, dogs, Elizabeth Ellis, Gallipoli, George Calderon, Ginger, John Polkinghorne, Jones, Kittie Calderon, Mary Hamilton, Nina Corbet, Percy Lubbock, Pets Cemeteries, Russian Orthodoxy, The Great War, Third Battle of Krithia, Tommy, White Raven, World War I | 12 Comments

A not-paradox, a not-paradox, a most ingenuous not-paradox

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Patrick Miles

In my post of 8 October 2016 I discussed George Calderon’s love of paradox and suggested that the ‘self-referential’ paradoxes in his plays might have been influenced by his following ‘developments in set theory in the 1900s, as he was an … Continue reading →

Posted in Edwardian character, Edwardian English, Edwardian literature, Modern parallels, Personal commentary | Tagged Albert Einstein, anomalies, anomalous expansion of water, Anton Chekhov, biographies, biography, Bryan, C.P. Snow, comments, contradiction, Daily News, Dardanelles, Fermi's Paradox, Frankfurt Book Fair, Gallipoli, Geminae, George Calderon, Gilbert and Sullivan, incongruity, Jim Al-Khalili, John Polkinghorne, Laurence Binyon, Lewis Carroll, Lord Weidenfeld, mathematicians, Maxwell's Demon, multiverse, overcrowding, paradox, quantum physics, relativity, Russell's Paradox, Schrödinger's Cat, science, set theory, Simon Baron-Cohen, String Theory, The Barber Paradox, The Fountain, The Grandfather Paradox, The Great War, The Lamp, The Liar Paradox, The Lieutenant's Heroine, The Little Stone House, The Paradox of the Twins, The Pirates of Penzance, The Pole in the Barn Paradox, the soul, The Two Talismans, The Walrus and the Carpenter, time travel, Trinity College Oxford, World War I, wormholes, Zeno | 4 Comments

‘All shall be well’ really?

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Patrick Miles

The text of my biography is now as ready, I think, as it’s ever going to be, my approaches to publishers are roughly on course, but I am far behind with my Permissions, and that means with writing my voluminous … Continue reading →

Posted in Modern parallels, Personal commentary | Tagged anchoresses, anchoritism, Black Death, escapology, eschatology, Four Quartets, Janina Ramirez, John Polkinghorne, Julian of Norwich, Lollards, mysticism, Peasants' Revolt, publishing, Rogier van der Weyden, S.P.C.K., T.S. Eliot | 4 Comments

One does the hokey cokey

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Patrick Miles

I said in my post of 6 October (nearly two months ago!) that I was ‘fired up to put the last tittle on my biography by the end of November’, which meant in the first instance writing the Afterword (‘Who … Continue reading →

Posted in Edwardian character, Edwardian literature, Heroism and Adventure, Personal commentary, Uncategorized | Tagged 'real time', Afterword, biographies, biography, chronotopia, comments, eschatology, finishing, George Calderon, hokey cokey, Introduction, John Polkinghorne, Kittie Calderon, Len Goodman, writer's block | Leave a comment

…and a brain surgeon writes

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Patrick Miles

Much as I am enjoying writing this blog free of the constraints of 1914-15 Time, I think long-term followers may understand when I say that I still think of my 1914-15 ‘blography’ of George as Calderonia proper. Those followers will remember … Continue reading →