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“... with quirks that reflect its evolutionary history and its neurobiological foundations.’ Thus Daniel Dennett feels able to claim that Darwinism is a ‘universal acid’ that ‘eats through just about every concept, and leaves in its wake a revolutionised worldview’. Some neuro-evo evangelists, especially those writing for a mass audience, take ...”

“... a file and I forget to drink it and it grows cold. Sometimes, I follow the catalogue, and then I pick up a file at random. I can’t waste time. I must go fast. I skip and skip, and then suddenly come across something which throws light on his career and his personality. In February 1990, soon before his death, he ended a letter to someone who had printed ...”

“... of whiteness? These questions have prompted a flourishing literature on Delius and race. Daniel Grimley, for example, has considered Delius’s American works ‘as part of a much wider literary-artistic construction of the South’. Delius’s first encounters with American culture were not in Florida but in Bradford, through the blackface minstrel ...”

“... I will turn to life … I would like some poet who has not yet found himself to be able to pick up a letter of mine and get the start from it that I have got from those letters of Keats … I feel I am in the vanguard, as Chaucer was in English poetry.Coleman never held back from judgment of other writers. ‘Goethe is I and I am he’; Hemingway ...”

“... years living as a castaway on an island off the coast of Chile before being rescued in 1709 – Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe (1719) was partly based on this episode. Improbably enough, one of the Wager’s sailors was called William Robinson Cruzoe – if he hadn’t deserted ship before it sailed, there might have been a real-life Crusoe among ...”

“... using a pen,’ Coleridge said, with the ruefulness of one who often couldn’t bring himself to pick a pen up.) The anaesthetic of sheer toil did the trick most of the time; but it is less surprising that, in the end, his mind broke down completely than that it took so long to happen. He took an odd sort of pride in how well, on the whole, he had coped with ...”

“... Cooper, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Kris Kristofferson, and Natasha and Daniel Bedingfield have variously done before him. The father, of course, the Abraham, or at least the son of the father, the Avraham ben Avraham Avinu, the Charlton Heston of redemption rock, is Johnny Cash, a man of intense spiritual certitude, and enormous ...”

“... re-entry to Britain. The watchword for many governments in that Fascist-leaning year was ‘Pick on the foreigner.’ But he went to Hanoi and to Prague – and to Bolivia, in the steps of Che Guevara. He is strongly aware of the racist dimension in the activities of his opponents, he remembers half-forgotten Sixties atrocities (like Sukarno’s ...”

“... could tell when she was about to have a switch and wrote notes to her other self so she could pick up her work without interruption – for when she woke up she would have no memory of what she had been doing. That’s the old story, to which I’ll return, for it matters to Braude’s book. During the 1970s multiples began to live in another world. In ...”

“... not many years earlier you’d have had to go to Paris or New Haven to hear about. Now you could pick up the rudiments of it in any university town, and though there was still an exciting whiff of controversy around ‘theory’, a topic known to make right-wing broadsheets and Oxbridge fellows see red, there were many well-written bluffer’s guides, headed ...”

“... pragmatism of Lemass. And he could add to this the myth-making and populist power of Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator, and the allure of the Fallen Leader, Parnell. He is a small man, and he moved around the gallery silently, watchfully, taking in the people with the same cold, charismatic, connoisseur’s stare as he did the paintings. It was ...”

“... they see in him a spirit of their own energetic resistance to darker necessities’) doesn’t pick up the way in which his successful flogging of mendacious ballads to naive rustics, on such wonderful subjects as ‘a fish that appeared upon the coast on Wednesday the fourscore of April, forty thousand fathom above water’, mimes and knowingly winks at ...”

“... apart at school. Many of the boys’ earliest memories were of palling around with senators like Daniel Inouye and Jesse Helms. They mowed lawns together and worked at a cold-storage warehouse, where Beau managed the deliveries and Hunter unloaded trucks. At high school Beau was called ‘the sheriff’ because he kept people in line in a friendly ...”

“... gatekeeper told us that if we were looking for the Herzliya Conference it was taking place at the Daniel Hotel. Slightly embarrassed, I turned to the taxi driver and asked him to take us to the correct location, a five-star hotel on the Herzliya seashore, one of Israel’s wealthiest spots. I took advantage of the extra time in the taxi, and the heavy traffic ...”

“... terms, AFDC was never a significant drain on public budgets, but neoconservatives such as Daniel Bell argued that it weakened norms of moral responsibility, producing a ripple effect of which inflation was a manifestation. Neoliberals, such as the Chicago economist Gary Becker, believed that families were simply more efficient than the state as a ...”