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Reflections on a Metaphysical Flaneur, by Raymond Tallis - review

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

Reflections of a Metaphysical Flâneur and Other Essays Raymond Tallis

Acumen, pp.299, £14.99, ISBN: 9781844656660

There are books we read for pleasure and there are books we are paid to review. However enjoyable the books we review, they are still, in some sense, ‘work’, and my attitude to them is different. Even when reading them with delight, I find myself ticking off the pages, as so much ‘job done’.

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