Rachel Molland – Infinite Summer 2015
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This week was the first of the summer in which I stuck to my reading “schedule” and read everyday on the bus. I’m prone to daydreaming while in any sort of motorized vehicle, so this is a remarkable tribute to my ability (or, frustrating inability, rather) to pay attention to something for more than thirty minutes at a time. Speakers at an AA meeting, where good storytelling is a must. During the Interdependence Day Y.D.A.U’s game of Eschaton, the young students are playing as president...Pemulis eloquen...
gracekenny1 – Infinite Summer 2015
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Mencius was a neo-Confucian philosopher who lived in the 4th century BC. As a pretty loyal follower of Confucius, Mencius was really emphatic about the importance of self-cultivation. A lot of his writing focuses on the process of achieving self-cultivation, so when I read the passage early on (like pages 82-84 or so) about Schtitt and his ideas of self-cultivation through tennis, I was thinking about Mencius. 8220;But then is battling and vanquishing the self the same as destroying yourself? If you must...