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Forwarded from Scattered Roses

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

—John Muir

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Heidegger offered his teacher and mentor a copy of 'Sein und Zeit' the 8th of April, 1926. The book can today be viewed in the Husserl-Archief te Leuven archive, with the notes in the margins of Husserl himself—they consist for the most part of question marks.

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Forwarded from chiaroscuro

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I enjoyed also Frye's observation that Eliot and Pound had emerged from Missouri and Idaho to announce that the true tradition of English poetry proceeded from origins in medieval Provence and Italy through later developments in France.

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And yet Frye had essentially irenic tendencies; when I first met him, in London in 1958, I urged him on to fiercer battles against High Church Modernists, but to no avail. As a Low Church minister (United Church of Canada) he shared the Blakean belief that Error would expose itself, and then self-destruct. Since I was, in his explicit view, a Judaizer of Blake, he assured me that Blake's symmetries counted for more than the Blakean Apocalypse. I do not wish to over-emphasize Frye's pieties: when I asked what he did as a minister, he dryly answered that he married and buried his students.

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Fonder than Frye was of Hermetic tradition, I once compared him in print to the neo-Platonists Proclus and Iamblichus. Though my comparison was amiable enough, he thundered down from Toronto that those worthies were neither Christians nor first-raters

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You children of the late ages!

I have nothing new to relate to you, only that, which is old and almost forgotten.

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Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult.

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longing for a past that never existed

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Forwarded from chiaroscuro

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For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefore consider carefully how you listen.

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Only in the light of the public sphere did that which existed become revealed, did everything become visible to all.

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Minerva's owl begins its flight only in the gathering dusk

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to introduce someone to the Nightmare of History is to introduce them to a type of Trauma that they are alienated from

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I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

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Forwarded from chiaroscuro

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The further north they reside, the dumber, more vile and primitive they are

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Some telegraphers in remote outposts even preferred online contact with other telegraphers to socializing with the locals. Thomas Stevens, a British telegraph operator stationed in Persia, shunned the local community in favor of telegraphic interaction with other Britons. "How companionable it was, that bit of civilization in a barbarous country," he wrote of his telegraphic friends, some of whom were thousands of miles away.

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Pay them well; where there is a Maecenas there will be a Horace and a Virgil also

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