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Public Sector lawyer seeks meaning and literary fame through blogging.
Effective Solution of Discontinuous Ivps Using a Runge-Kutta Formula Pair With Interpolants
There is one immense and tangible benefit to me from listening to literature, rather than reading it for yourself, which is that, just sometimes, the voice you are hearing is better at the job than the one inside you. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard authors (or actors, for that matter) reading aloud from a work I already know, but hearing something unexpectedly deeper, subtler and more rounded in either the train of thought or the language itself, some dimension that had escaped the way we silently register what's on the printed page. That, at least, is priceless.
Oscar: if you bite my toes off then I'll die and then you will be broken-hearted
My day job involves advising schools about a lot things; quite often the issues involve parents who are in dispute about their children. The famous Larkin poem has often come to mind. In a recent judgment it seem Lord Justice Wall is of a similar view, after quoting the poem he commented:
"This mother and father are no different from many separated parents who make the damage to their children caused by their separation much worse by continuing their battles against each other in legal proceedings."
