Atonement January 11, 2008
Posted by Phineas in : Irrelevant, Psycho/Spirit, Reading , add a commentSo a few years ago, I was given a copy of the Ian McEwan novel, Atonement. I placed it on my bedside and started reading it. One paragraph into it, I fell asleep. Each night, I tried to read more, but all reclined like that, I can hardly get one paragraph before I fall asleep.
So since that time, a whole lot of other people also read that book, and some of them got the bright idea to make a movie based on it. More people got involved and now there’s a movie in the theaters now.
I can’t tell you how strange that makes me feel. I feel a bit like Rumpelstiltskin Rip Van Winkle. Like all you people are a frenetic blur, racing around me, while I’m in this temporal slowdown, disjoined, frozen, metabolic hibernation.
Somewhere out there, right now, a novel is waiting to be written by someone, whose first three paragraphs will put me to sleep, some future sleep, from which I will awaken again, to find a movie about the novel will have been produced, and it will already be in my Netflix queue.
Hootenanny Magazine Not Dead Yet June 3, 2007
Posted by kimbojava in : Art, Irrelevant, Narrative, Reading, Timewaster , add a commentFinally paid a little attention to this neglected site o’mine. No new content, but at least it’s tolerably reskinned. Man that was overdue. I hope to revive it or reinvent it as some sort of arts/letters blog or some such. Just to add to the noise, since the world is not noisy enough.
On To Plutarch November 29, 2005
Posted by Phineas in : Reading , add a commentFinished reading Paul Cartledge’s Alexander The Great. On to ’s lives. Will go back to and before coming forward to and .
After that back to Plato (Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn) (ca. May 21? 427 BC – ca. 347 BC), born Aristocles, was an immensely influential classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer, and founder of the Academy in Athens. In countries speaking Arabic, Turkish, Persian, or Urdu, he is called Eflatun, which means a spring of water, and, metaphorically, of knowledge. and Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs; 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote many books about physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology.
Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, are generally considered as the three most influential ancient Greek philosophers in Western thought. Among them they transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. The writings of Plato and Aristotle form the core of Ancient philosophy., , , and then forward to the .
Its’a all rather ambitious, part of my plan to educate myself in western philosophy all the way down to the present. Then I’ll hope to finally understand what the hell is going on.
