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Monophthalmus Rex: Christ, Scientist
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Thursday, July 10, 2014. Princeton: 2002) , but seems to have put it aside at the outbreak of the war. He described it as "a new marriage of heaven and hell" (ibid., p. 409), but it seems to me a marriage of just about everything in the world to everything else in the world. Our judgement of the great religions will depend upon our estimate of the accuracy of their historical forecast. By their fruits ye shall know them.". The teaching of Jesus is the first application of the scientific approach to human...
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Monophthalmus Rex: November 2014
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Sunday, November 9, 2014. Lachrymose is a funny word. One of the Latin words my students were to learn last week was lacrima. I knew this was wrong immediately, but couldn't figure out why for a minute. The ending, of course, was wrong: It is not pronounced that way, but I knew that the intermediate Latin word was lacrimosus. Full of tears" and that the - osus. Ending (meaning "full of.") becomes "-ous" in English (so gloriosus. Becomes "glorious" and curiosus. 1660s, "tear-like," from Latin lacrimosus.
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Monophthalmus Rex: October 2014
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Monday, October 13, 2014. You learn something, well, new to you. First, the extent to which the Greeks identified music with poetry was greater than I had always believed. I knew, of course, that no poetry was uttered aloud without being sung, and that the names for the types of poetry (Lyric, Tragedy, Comedy, etc.) had to do with music. What I did not know, as this: "In his Poetics. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988, p. 7; citing Poetics. So, the point isn't so much that the Greeks didn't conceive of unsung ...
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Monophthalmus Rex: September 2014
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Saturday, September 27, 2014. Furiously missing the point. Randall Jarrell, "Freud to Paul: The Stages of Auden's Ideology," in The Third Book of Criticism. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1969), pp. 185-187. Auden] is fond of the statement Freedom is the recognition of necessity. But he has never recognized what it means in his own case: this if he understands certain of his own attitudes as causally. Let me make this plain with a quotation. On the first page of the New York Times Book Review.
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Monophthalmus Rex: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. I am always made miserable when I look at Facebook, and I ought to have learned my lesson about wandering down that dark path, beset, as it is, on all sides with nonsense and fluff and walls of opinion everyone else shares but me. Most of all, I need to learn to keep my mouth shut. About which rich jerk had the hardest childhood; aggrieved my sister-in-law by posting this. One of the comments made reference to the rise in anti-intellectualism, which is, of course, nonsense. Ha...
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Monophthalmus Rex: Science!
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. I am always made miserable when I look at Facebook, and I ought to have learned my lesson about wandering down that dark path, beset, as it is, on all sides with nonsense and fluff and walls of opinion everyone else shares but me. Most of all, I need to learn to keep my mouth shut. About which rich jerk had the hardest childhood; aggrieved my sister-in-law by posting this. One of the comments made reference to the rise in anti-intellectualism, which is, of course, nonsense. Ha...
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Monophthalmus Rex: You learn something, well, new to you
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Monday, October 13, 2014. You learn something, well, new to you. First, the extent to which the Greeks identified music with poetry was greater than I had always believed. I knew, of course, that no poetry was uttered aloud without being sung, and that the names for the types of poetry (Lyric, Tragedy, Comedy, etc.) had to do with music. What I did not know, as this: "In his Poetics. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988, p. 7; citing Poetics. So, the point isn't so much that the Greeks didn't conceive of unsung ...
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Monophthalmus Rex: lachrymose is a funny word
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Sunday, November 9, 2014. Lachrymose is a funny word. One of the Latin words my students were to learn last week was lacrima. I knew this was wrong immediately, but couldn't figure out why for a minute. The ending, of course, was wrong: It is not pronounced that way, but I knew that the intermediate Latin word was lacrimosus. Full of tears" and that the - osus. Ending (meaning "full of.") becomes "-ous" in English (so gloriosus. Becomes "glorious" and curiosus. 1660s, "tear-like," from Latin lacrimosus.
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Monophthalmus Rex: Furiously missing the point
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Saturday, September 27, 2014. Furiously missing the point. Randall Jarrell, "Freud to Paul: The Stages of Auden's Ideology," in The Third Book of Criticism. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1969), pp. 185-187. Auden] is fond of the statement Freedom is the recognition of necessity. But he has never recognized what it means in his own case: this if he understands certain of his own attitudes as causally. Let me make this plain with a quotation. On the first page of the New York Times Book Review.
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Monophthalmus Rex: August 2015
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Saturday, August 1, 2015. In praise of ostracism. Many years ago, in the midst of another, dreadful election season, my father suggested to me that it was maybe time to return to the ancient Athenian system of filling most civic posts by lot. "How," I asked, fully agape with youthful astonishment, "would that be better? I don't know," sighed he, tired with so many years of having thought these things through. "But it couldn't be any worse.". Now the sentence of ostracism was not a chastisement of base pr...
