Deus Londinii estne?

http://eclassics.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=727885:Photo:3805

Art and Poetry of War

Just some quick notes and links:

http://www.musee-moreau.fr/pages/page_id18781_u1l2.htm Art of War circa 625 B.C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrtaeus

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7849/tyrtaios.html an English translation of his songs

http://www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conJmrArticle.22/viewPage/3
Pye, influenced by Tyrtaeus, rouses the British patriotism

http://www.gottwein.de/Grie/lyr/lyr_tyrt_gr.php? Greek Tytaeus Texts (with German translations)

Acharya S.

http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/acharayas.html

Acharya S., mythologist and archaeologist, has some interesting things to say in this interview.

What does her 'S.' stand for? Sunbjectivity?


"Subjectivity. Objectivity. What is the difference?" says William Burroughs, the cut-up.

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/burroughs.htm

Augustine and Plotinus

The mysticism of Augustine compared with that of Plotinus. This looks like something I'll enjoy sometime. http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=10784

Love Parade

Berlin's Love Parade has been moved to Essen this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Parade

http://www.2camels.com/love-parade.php

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2746928,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-rdf

HYPOKEIMENON

The homeric scriptures constitute the hypokeimenon of Greek.

http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/lessons/pharr.asp

*A Rebours* incidentals

3 Baudelaire 'sonnets' selected by Duc Jean des Esseintes {in J.K. Huysmans' *A Rebours*}

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.f.semple/index/baud4.html "The Lovers' Death"

"The Enemy"
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/charles_baudelaire/poems/489

"Anywhere out of the World"
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/symbolist/texts/baudelaire_anywhere.html


Ville de Sceaux
http://www.sceaux.fr/fr/sceaux/index.html

Short film from Sceaux
http://www.sceaux.fr/fr/social-et-sante/le-film-mauvais-garcon/index.html

IKKYU = ONE PAUSE

"Every day, priests minutely examine the Dharma
And endlessly chant complicated sutras.
Before doing that, though, they should learn
How to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon."

"After ten days on this temple, my mind is spinning --
The red thread of passion is very strong in my loins.
If you wish to locate me another day,
Look in the fish stall, sake shop, or brothel.

-- Ikkyu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikky%C5%AB

www.elon.edu/sullivan/zenpoems.htm

new Scetes and new translation of Psalms

"the Californian scete"; I ran across this logos when
checking out a curious news report about a new Coptic Orthodox
monastery in California deserta. http://www.stantonymonastery.org/
So there you are. Naturally I had to investigate that word scete and
it lead me a merry chase. There is nothing in my ancient greek lexica
that comes close; but in a modern lexicon I found sketos, an adjective
meaning "plain, simple, pure". An Egyptian tour guide said 'scetes'
means "the ascetics". But I didn't hit real paydirt until I got into
Wikipedia through Thebaid and found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skete

I was pleasured to discover yesterday that there is a New Skete in New
York where the monks translated the Eastern Orthodox psalmody into
American English and made it available online. Their founder's obit
is probably the best introduction: http://www.nysun.com/article/57427

http://www.ogreatmystery.com/newskete/psalter/

Their new translation goes back to sources earlier than the Greek Septuagint from which, I believe, all the other available translations of the psalms were made.

tachylogorrhea

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070817205522.htm

So, are pronouns the secret advantage of the glib fast-talkers?

As they speed merrily through their monologues, we listeners must work out the associations with proper nouns, images, geography and such. That's why extended listening can be so exhausting.

C.S. Lewis' phatic hiatus

"The cardinal difficulty," said MacPhee, "in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, 'Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is, 'Put that in the other one in there.' And then if you ask them, 'in where?' they say, 'in there, of course.' There is consequently a phatic hiatus."

*That Hideous Strength* was published in 1945. I reading it more than 50 years ago, uncertain whether abridged or unabridged. I still recall enjoying the creepy thrills phatically generated in the reading.

In the excerpt quoted above C.S. Lewis (CSL) misuses the word 'phatic' which lexicologists ever since 1928 have insisted means communication not of information but only of feeling "revealing shared feelings or establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than communicating ideas. ...feminine relationship chatter not masculine task instruction...

http://www.solcon.nl/arendsmilde/cslewis/reflections/index.htm

Post-Mad-Cow

The taste of the forbidden Bovril

fading from our minds like blooms

of Summers past recurring in mem'

ries regained like the madeleines in

the eternal teatime of Marcel Proust.


writ Aug 12, 2007 by nekkid

Celebrating Friday the Thirteenth

Crash (1996) on IFC (Independent Film Channel) Midnight - Eastern DS Time; 12:35am Pacific

dir. David Cronenberg ... the controversial underground car crash subculture movie!

I remember this movie from 1996 as having more horror than the best Holywood horror flicks.

It was quickly disappeared; the tracks being covered by a 5th rate flick usurping the title. Now it's back thanks to IFC. I'm glad I didn't cancel my cable subscription now.

I hope my memory isn't just being hyperbolic.

Mountain Sitting

Mountain is sitting

Thinking like a rock

Slow and very stable:

So who all need emote

Empathy or Antipathy

Sympathy or Lunacy?

Silence still knows best.

Quiet thus beats the heat.

Dead Poets Society movie in Finland

I saw in a blog the Dead Poets Society movie is still having effects in Finland.

http://kotkavuori.blogspot.com/2007/05/hidden-curriculum-in-7th-graders-books.html

I wanted to leave a comment but my password didn't work. I posted a link in

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/deadpoetssocietymovieclub/

Biology of skin color

Zebra-fish and the biology of skin color:

http://dissectleft.blogspot.com/2005_12_11_dissectleft_archive.html

The Muslim Brotherhood

Is the Muslim Brotherhood moderate and peace-loving as our political representatives say?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/the_muslim_bortherhoods_duping.html

Extinct Fauna --- Do you miss them?

http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Endangered/lists/extinct.html

Perhaps people with unrepaired hare-lips may miss the hare-lip sucker. Nature appears to have filled in the ecological gaps left by the carolina parakeets and the passenger pigeons and most other extincted fauna. I sorta miss the sabre-tooth tigers but the cats we now have fill the gap since there are no more wooly mammoths nor boars that required 15 strong men to carry nor even those huge aurochs that were the pride of Poles as recently as the 17th century.

http://users.aristotle.net/~swarmack/aurohist.html

I've heard there are Russians working on a project to bring the wooly mammoths back. They must be the most missed of extincts.

Re: Horror of VT mass slaughter

Fox News Channel wants to protect us from the horror of 'Cho's Manifesto Package'. I've gotten a few glimpses of his video and suppose worse may have been shown on NBC tv. It would be more equitable if the media gave us a choice about viewing this material; but, of course, they would rather play nanny and make the decisions for us [just like legislators are prone to do].

Those of us who would choose to view the whole thing are not necessarily 'sickos motivated by morbid curiosity'. There are important lessons for the future of humanity to be learned from looking deeply and clearly into such material; the apparently 'most-qualified', the academically certificated are often misled by their narrow specializations and bias.

Many of us distance ourselves from such perpetrators, often attempting to dehumanize them verbally to increase our separateness. But we do share the uncanny dynamics of human nature with them and "homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto" [I am human therefore I think nothing human to be alien from me] as Ciciero, Seneca, and Terence wrote so long ago. One doesn't have to believe that we are all one big soul [*Grapes of Wrath*] to be able to appreciate this.

Horror of VT mass slaughter

The horror of the Virginia Tech mass slaughter!

Were they casualties of one boy's war?

What was he really warring against? Wasn't he envious of the opulently successful like his sister with her important position with the U.S. State Department? Extreme sibling rivalry?

*The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith*, an Australian novel by Thomas Kenneally, give one some clue of such a shooter's on-the-spot dynamics. Cho Seung-Hui was, of course, much less innocent and much more cold-blooded than the character, Jimmy Blacksmith.