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Just what I hoped from this collection, beautifully written essays that leave me breathless.

The first, Nests, about the author's fascination with birds and terror of disrupting their habitats. At least, that's how it begins.

"In Erigena’s paradoxical theology, God is both Everything and Nothing, the two terms balance one another and are held in a creative tension to suggest the mystery which our word ‘God’ can only symbolise."

I find the historical context fascinating, but this theological gobbledegook is truly baffling.

"Anything less than 20, 000 books is not a library, it is just some books." Benjamin Disraeli