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Nemesis: One and One and One and One

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So long as you stay clear of humanism there is nothing to complain of. - Basil Bunting. One and One and One and One. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Perhaps offers the best explication of thinking that seems specific to gender. That is, men think this way, women think that way. Women can't add, he once said, jokingly. When I asked him what he meant, he said, For them, one and one and one and one don't make four. What do they make? I said, expecting five or three. I knew he meant kill. There is ano...

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Nemesis: One Cogged Circle

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So long as you stay clear of humanism there is nothing to complain of. - Basil Bunting. There are two things that strike me with Chapter 37 of Moby Dick. 2 Here Melville somewhat countermands an Emersonian trope in "Circles" that every circle admits of being outdone, a circle can be encompassed by a greater circle, an infinite expansion of the possible. CHAPTER 37. Sunset. THE CABIN; BY THE STERN WINDOWS; AHAB SITTING ALONE, AND GAZING OUT. But first I pass. Down; my soul mounts up! Mine; the sort that n...

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Nemesis: Audio of "The Fixation of Belief" by Charles Sanders Peirce

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So long as you stay clear of humanism there is nothing to complain of. - Basil Bunting. Audio of "The Fixation of Belief" by Charles Sanders Peirce. Here's the promised companion piece to James's "The Will to Believe." I'll confess a preference for this by Peirce. An audio recording of Charles Sanders Peirce's " The Fixation of Belief. 44:08) first appearing in Popular Science Monthly. A leading physicist of the 19th Century, Boltzmann. Which cannot be explained or deduced from that which is uniform....

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Nemesis: Comparative Eugenics: Utopia v Dystopia v Public Education

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So long as you stay clear of humanism there is nothing to complain of. - Basil Bunting. Comparative Eugenics: Utopia v Dystopia v Public Education. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915). From Brave New World. By Aldous Huxley (1932). By Charles Dickens (1854). They did effectually and permanently limit the population in numbers, so that the country furnished plenty for the fullest, richest life for all of them: plenty of everything, including room, air, solitude even. When it came to psychology - there was ...

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Nemesis: What Works and Is

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So long as you stay clear of humanism there is nothing to complain of. - Basil Bunting. What Works and Is. It occurred to me today that the impasse between what we call science, which must simply mean the continuing experimentation with the world's innards, and "Belief," which must mean every single thing we think and say, can be explained away really pretty easily. Belief is ALL meaning all the time. What "works" is irrelevant. Belief springs from the narrative fictions of analogical mind. Audio Recordi...

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Nemesis: Audio of "The Will to Believe" by William James

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So long as you stay clear of humanism there is nothing to complain of. - Basil Bunting. Audio of "The Will to Believe" by William James. An audio recording of " The Will to Believe. 1:00:08) by William James, read by Doug Storm. I read from the text of the essay. First presented to an audience in 1896, this essay was published in a volume entitled The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897). Peirce has been called the greatest genius produced by America. April 1, 2014 at 9:51 PM.

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Nemesis: Audio Recording of the Preface to Whitman's 1885 Leaves of Grass

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So long as you stay clear of humanism there is nothing to complain of. - Basil Bunting. Audio Recording of the Preface to Whitman's 1885 Leaves of Grass. An audio recording by Doug Storm of Whitman's "Preface" to. Full text of the "Preface". November 15, 2013 at 3:14 PM. Thank you so much for posting the recording! It helped a lot. November 15, 2013 at 3:33 PM. Were you just interested in this or did you have to read it for a school assignment? September 30, 2015 at 4:56 PM. September 30, 2015 at 4:57 PM.

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Nemesis: Dismembered In All Directions

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So long as you stay clear of humanism there is nothing to complain of. - Basil Bunting. Dismembered In All Directions. Could he not write as well—or even better—on one leg than on two? The surgeon need not take off the rich man's (or woman's) leg or arm: he can remove the appendix or the uvula, and leave the patient none the worse after a fortnight or so in bed, whilst the nurse, the general practitioner, the apothecary, and the surgeon will be the better. January 21, 2014 at 7:56 PM. Inspector No. 75.

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Nemesis: The Only Initiative I Acknowledge

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So long as you stay clear of humanism there is nothing to complain of. - Basil Bunting. The Only Initiative I Acknowledge. 8220;Where are women? 8221; [asks Shevek, physicist/anarchist]. Pae laughed. Oiie smiled and asked, “In what sense? 8220;All senses. I met women at the party last night — five, ten — hundreds of men. None were scientists, I think. Who were they? 8220;Wives. One of them was my wife, in fact,” Oiie said with his secretive smile. “Where are other women? 8221; “Scientists? 8220;There you...