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Also known as James Douglas Graham Wood

literary critic

Person · Open Library

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  • The parable of the ten virgins, illustrated in six sermons
  • The rain islands
  • Democracy and the Will to Power
  • Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de actione et usu emeticorum
  • Unto His Grace Her Majesty's High Commissioner, and the right honourable the estates of Parliament, the humble petition of Alexander Black, William Henderson, and James Wood, merchants in Edinburgh

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James Wood (b. 1953) is a British conductor, composer, musicologist, and former percussionist who currently lives in Germany. He was Nadia Boulanger's student in Paris in the early seventies and graduated from the Cambridge University in 1975. Wood also studied percussion and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London and took private lessons from Nicholas Cole. After serving as a conductor of the Schola Cantorum of Oxford from 1977 to 1981 <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/James+Wood

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Quotes

  • The hypocrite may serve, among other things, as a deformed ambassador of the truth. By so obviously misrepresenting the truth, he enables us to trace its smothered outlines.
  • The big contemporary novel is a perpetual motion machine that appears to have been embarrassed into velocity. It seems to want to abolish stillness, as if ashamed of silence. Stories and sub-stories sprout on every page, and these novels continually flourish their glamorous congestion.
  • An excess of storytelling has become the contemporary way of shrouding, in majesty, a lack; it is the Sun King principle. The lack is the human.

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