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A Point of View: Mourning the loss of the written word
A Point of View: Mourning the loss of the written word The modernist writer Virginia Woolf called letter writing "the human art, which owes its origins in the love of friends". In our frenetic world of electronic communication, we must remember to write with thought and consideration, says historian Lisa Jardine. In these days of email, texts and instant messaging, I am not alone, I feel sure, in mourning the demise of the old-fashioned handwritten letter. Exchanges of letters capture nuances of shared thought and feeling to which their electronic replacements simply cannot do justice. Here's an example. In July 1940, with the country at war, Virginia Woolf published a biography of the artist, Roger Fry - champion of post-impressionism and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group. The timing could hardly have been worse. Fry's reputation was as an ivory tower liberal who believed that art inhabits a self-contained formal space remote from the vulgar ...
Healing rituals and bad spirits on a Philippine island
Healing rituals and bad spirits on a Philippine island By Kate McGeown BBC News, Philippines Islanders gather earth and dust to use in rituals to protect their homes Siquijor is one of more than 7,000 islands in the Philippines - it has tropical sun, white sand and an azure sea, but it is also famous for witchcraft. How do you go about looking for a witch? It is not a question I had ever thought to ask before, so I rang the Siquijor tourism department to see if they were able to help. "We don't have any witches," was the first reply, which did not seem all that promising. But after a bit more discussion, it seems that Siquijor's witches - well, the good ones anyway - have recently undergone a rebranding exercise. They are now called traditional healers. But what about the bad witches, I asked? "Oh we don't promote them," came the rather sensible answer. ...