Could be apotropaic maybe?

I already had a PhD when I found out that segue wasn’t pronounced ’seeg’

Sorry to hear that Prof Liz

Hang on…

For me:

Aretha
Dionne Warwick
Smokey Robinson
Ronnie Drew (Dubliners)
Jeff Lynne
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Marc Bolan
Maddy Prior

I’m planning a book on the history of aikido and am interested in the relationship between Kano and Ueshiba. I wanted to write a straight history book, but almost immediately got tangled in the extreme strangeness of persons and historical moment.

This was the extract that caught me:

That being Immortal Gestures? I’ll seek it

Hi, I’m not entirely sure yet. I’ve just ordered your book ‘Beating and Nothingness’ on the strength of a quotation that I found on here which I now appear to have lost. What martial arts do you practice?

Hi Damon, I’m interested in your writing on philosophy and the martial arts. I’m an aikido person mainly so that’s where my thinking lands. I’m also an academic just launching into non-academic writing…