Changes
Tried to visit Hester but she's changed her site to "invitation only"
So, she's out.
Instead I've linked
Hilary Hahn
A terrific violinist and world class star.
Done reading the Emily Dickinson psychological profile and started in on a philosophical tome.
The density of word-to-meaning in the Emily book is far outweighed by the incredible verbal density of the philosophy book.
It's about "reason" least I thought it was when I bought it on line but it turns out that it's about somebody else's book about reason.
Trying to explain such a nebulous concept takes a lot of ink.
But it is fun trying to parse the sentences.
Fun because when one has untangled the polysyllabic nightmare of one of the sentences, one finds him (or her) self facing a rather simple and even mundane concept.
Just shows haw truly complex life can be when you try to describe it.
Like the centipede crippled by trying to explain how he keeps all his feet in order.
Try this; describe the difference you feel when you push "h" on your keyboard and when you push "p".
"h" is in the middle so that, depending on your typing habits, you might use tour right hand or your left hand.
Or maybe you just use one or two fingers.
But, nonetheless, it has to "feel" different because at least you have to mentally measure the the space between the two letters.
And to do this you have to have a mental map of your version of the keyboard that distinguishes between the two.
Which means that there is some brain chemistry difference.
So measure that and tell me exactly what the difference actually "is"
What does that word actually mean?
Or, worse, what exactly is "is"?
One interesting quote is from Karl Marx who seems to think that the "proletariat" needs to have it's "class consciousness" raised.
Obviously, he's never actually experienced proletarianess or he would realize that us of the dirty fingernail class are most painfully aware of the boots in our faces.
Most painfully from those who spend too much time in libraries fantasizing about their own importance.
Anyway, it's a fun read, not only for the satirical possibilities, but because it's work.
Which can lead to insights to the workings and history of human thought.
Also it feeds my stereotype of what "higher education" might have been all about.
Had I experienced it.
My composition teacher David Mesler will be performing some new pieces at Nordstrom hall on the 14th for the SSO's "Day of Music".
I am partially tempted to ask the SSO if I might be allowed on their side of the street for that performance.
But that wound is still suppurating, oozing unseemly substances and odors.
As you who suffer to read this site are all too aware.
So it's just another nail in the coffin of my naive belief in the essential decency of the individual human being.
It's only you who read this who keep the lid loose on that box.
helium
So, she's out.
Instead I've linked
A terrific violinist and world class star.
Reading Habits,
Done reading the Emily Dickinson psychological profile and started in on a philosophical tome.
The density of word-to-meaning in the Emily book is far outweighed by the incredible verbal density of the philosophy book.
It's about "reason" least I thought it was when I bought it on line but it turns out that it's about somebody else's book about reason.
Trying to explain such a nebulous concept takes a lot of ink.
But it is fun trying to parse the sentences.
Fun because when one has untangled the polysyllabic nightmare of one of the sentences, one finds him (or her) self facing a rather simple and even mundane concept.
Just shows haw truly complex life can be when you try to describe it.
Like the centipede crippled by trying to explain how he keeps all his feet in order.
Try this; describe the difference you feel when you push "h" on your keyboard and when you push "p".
"h" is in the middle so that, depending on your typing habits, you might use tour right hand or your left hand.
Or maybe you just use one or two fingers.
But, nonetheless, it has to "feel" different because at least you have to mentally measure the the space between the two letters.
And to do this you have to have a mental map of your version of the keyboard that distinguishes between the two.
Which means that there is some brain chemistry difference.
So measure that and tell me exactly what the difference actually "is"
What does that word actually mean?
Or, worse, what exactly is "is"?
One interesting quote is from Karl Marx who seems to think that the "proletariat" needs to have it's "class consciousness" raised.
Obviously, he's never actually experienced proletarianess or he would realize that us of the dirty fingernail class are most painfully aware of the boots in our faces.
Most painfully from those who spend too much time in libraries fantasizing about their own importance.
Anyway, it's a fun read, not only for the satirical possibilities, but because it's work.
Which can lead to insights to the workings and history of human thought.
Also it feeds my stereotype of what "higher education" might have been all about.
Had I experienced it.
Also
My composition teacher David Mesler will be performing some new pieces at Nordstrom hall on the 14th for the SSO's "Day of Music".
I am partially tempted to ask the SSO if I might be allowed on their side of the street for that performance.
But that wound is still suppurating, oozing unseemly substances and odors.
As you who suffer to read this site are all too aware.
So it's just another nail in the coffin of my naive belief in the essential decency of the individual human being.
It's only you who read this who keep the lid loose on that box.
On a lighter note
helium
posted by Lane Savant at 10:42 AM
5 Comments:
Hallo, Lane!
Don't ask the inmates of the Cuckucks' Nest if you can go to David's concert, JUST GO!! With your new hairstyle, they'll never recognize you; you now look like one of their most generous doners, so they wouldn't dare challenge you!! So,
CHARGE!!1
Anonomann
Hallo, Lane!
The State Library keeps striking on me, so if I don't get to much of the rest of your recent blogs, that's why.
LL sends regards to you all.
Tschüß,
Anonomann
Perhaps you could post a pic of your "new look". You have not sheared your locks or trimmed your beard in a coon's age, so it must make you look to be about 35 years old, enit? Anononmann is richtig. Just put on a sports coat, put Meredith on your arm, keep your mouth shut, and go to the concert. And IF somehow you are caught in this deception, think of the ink that will kick off for several more years of rants against the SSO.
Re-reading my own rants somehow opposed to your rants, as I seem to be an Obama guy and you seem to be an independent carmudgeon....I realize that I am as full of shit as the next guy, just another Joe Schmoo trying to get by and still make a difference, deluded into thinking that my vote and my opinion means jack in the total scheme of things. My heartfelt apologies if I ruffled some Savant feathers, and my payment for your services will come under consideration; not. I would much rather owe it to you than cheat you out of it.
Well you have closed another page on your Emily Lost Love saga. Hopefully your new insights will fuel some poetry or passion or some damned thing or other.
You go on and on about the "philosophical tome" but you don't identify it, for if you did then you, and we, would most certainly know what it IS. Remember, old friend, all we have is this moment we are immersed in, the eternal Now. Everything else is dreams, right brain bullshit, and the education forced down our gullets by the ruling classes, the philosopher kings, the facists, and SSO.
I like your colorful analogy of the upper classes using your mug for a mud collector, and then tazing you for not being grateful for the attention. But I think if you look at the label in those Italian boots you will find that they were actually manufactured in Sri Lanka and India.
Somehow your "lower education" seems to have been superior to the "higher education" that many of us paid dearly for, and then of course were able to make career choices that were commensurate with our new found importance, knowledge, and privledges. Somehow our found your own way, created a life out of the hard work with your hands and heart, and left the intellectual meandering to those twilight years of your retirement.
Glenn
The Book is David Ingram's
"Habermas and the dialectic of Reason"
O yeah, I tried to put a counter on FFTR but none of the ones I copied off "easy hit counters" worked. Even the one I copied off this site refused to load.
FFTR is a different program than FFTL
but you can still edit the template so I don't have a clue what's wrong.
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