Title: In which an intelligent man turns his brain off
Product review: John Moriarty, Irish philosopher and gardener, tries to restore a sense of Wonder and Mysticism by cobbling together a lot of scraps of world mythology and gasping at the resulting junkpile.It's a sort of precis to his multi-volume work of unrivalled gibber, "Turtle Was Gone A Long Time". No, I don't think he means the turtle that the elephants that support Discworld are standing on.This is the sort of thing that many Irish people think ought to be our contribution to the world. Sadly, I don't think that Moriarty is bring the Irish people back to natural religion, not when there are more immediate problems to deal with, such as major urban drug abuse and racism. This sort of spiritualistic burble is all very well-meaning, but it functions as a verbal fog in which the well-heeled can hide and reassure themselves that for all their investments they're cultured people really.Bah. Humbug.
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