Culture
19 Jun 09
28 Jun 09
Originally posted by FMFit's ok. i'll banish the darkness with the flashlight of Rationality, the torch of Logic, the candle of Knowledge, and the bic lighter of my intelligence. here i go....
Aggh, NO! NO! Blackamp! Don't go down into the cellar...!
whoooooooooooooooah!!!!!
that last step was a doozieđł
29 Jun 09
Originally posted by Bosse de NageAnd very good it was too. An island in the sea of ignorance has been illuminated.
The Invention of Clouds, Richard Hamblyn. About Luke Howard, 'who gave the clouds the names by which they are known today'.
Matters of Exchange, Harold J. Cook. Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. How commerce triggered the Scientific Revolution.
30 Jun 09
Pessoa & Co.. Grove Press. Poems by the major heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, including Fernando Pessoa, selected and translated by Richard Zenith.
I devote my higher mind to the ardent
Pursuit of the summit, leaving
Verse to chance and its laws,
For when the thought is lofty and noble,
The sentence will naturally seek it,
And rhythm slavishly serve it.
-- Ricardo Reis
30 Jun 09
Originally posted by scherzoI think he's offering a cogent critique of vanguardism, probably the most pernicious aspect of Marxist-Leninism, Stalinism and their ilk. I'm as suspicious of them as I am their blood-kin, the vanguardists of the neocons.
How can you claim that a "revolutionary elite" took power, then that the ends and means weren't divorced?
01 Jul 09
Originally posted by DrKFA horrid thought just struck me -- do you have a beard?
I think he's offering a cogent critique of vanguardism, probably the most pernicious aspect of Marxist-Leninism, Stalinism and their ilk. I'm as suspicious of them as I am their blood-kin, the vanguardists of the neocons.