Tuesday, November 27, 2007

News at Eleven: [Ted Hughes] essay "Superstitions"

(in Winter Pollen, 1994) mounts a concessive defence of astrology: "To an outsider, astrology is a procession of puerile absurdities. A Babel of gibberish". It has no way of shedding its mistakes as science does. Yet, reviewing Louis MacNeice's Astrology, Hughes offers up Evangeline Adams as testable data, showing that astrology works, whether as magic or as a science.

from The Times Literary Supplement: Ted Hughes untamed

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