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The master and his emissary criticism5/30/2023 ![]() Iain McGilchrist's qualifications for his massive undertaking are ideal, perhaps unique. ![]() In other words, it makes at least an attempt to stop the excitement of first reading being grabbed and ossified by my left hemisphere. And that ‘pencilled’ (it dawned on me as I read) is important: pencil is inherently provisional, so it helps to keep the experience of the book alive. When it did, I read it in every spare moment I had, and a lot I hadn't, ending up with underlinings and sometimes manic exclamation marks pencilled onto almost every page: 462 in all, not including another 123 of small-print notes and references. ![]() I ordered my copy immediately after reading Mary Midgley's review 1 in the Guardian and waited impatiently for it to arrive. I was not asked to write this review I asked to be allowed to. ![]()
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