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Karin Turkington's avatar

exogenousity - having never encountered this word before, I like the look and sound of it. Will I ever have the opportunity to use it or even remember it? I don't know.

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Kathleen's avatar

Interesting ... and timely. There appears to be a great deal of conversation currently about 'change' but this is a great reminder that change is always occurring. Some change is desired - some, not so much. I must add 'The Leopard' to my reading list. I am a fan of Peter Senge's book 'The Dance of Change ... The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations'.

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Peter Mushkat's avatar

'The Leopard' has been on my favourites list ever since I first read it roughly 50 years ago. Also love the Visconti film although flawed. Interesting to consider if he had been able to follow through with his original casting choice of Olivier for Don Fabizio (the Producers felt that Lancaster would do better at the Box Office) especially as Olivier was outstanding as Lord Marchmain in Brideshead.

Not so fond of the Netflix series ...

You don't mention having read 'Lampedusa' by Stephen Price and I can't remember whether you were at the Readers' Festival when he here. It is a terrific book in my opinion.

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Julian Porter's avatar

This outreach of The Leopard is truly mind boggling,beyond your usual intimidating range of erudition.”We dance with exogenousity”

Who is dancing???

I could never dance even after a Miss Van Valkenburg gave me a lesson or two

I should start now???

My guess your dancing is slow shuffle .

I do take one pleasure in your column is that I read the Leopard 50 years ago

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