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Half-Assed Legomena: All My Ghosts
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I make others say for me, not before but after me, what, either for want of language or want of sense, I cannot myself so well express.'. Saturday, March 2, 2013. A few years ago I read a poem on the blog Laudator Temporis Acti. The poem is by August von Platen, with a translation by one Eric Sams. Hardly a day passes for me without a thought of its lines. Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte, wo ist er nun? Der Vogel, dessen Lied ich lauschte, wo ist er nun? And that man I once was and whom I long ago.
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Nature | Jason O'Brien
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Half-Assed Legomena: Embryon Philosophers
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I make others say for me, not before but after me, what, either for want of language or want of sense, I cannot myself so well express.'. Wednesday, September 7, 2011. Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial; or A brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk. London: 1669) p. 22:. Den, and are but Embryon Philosophers. Act III, Scene i, 70-82):. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,. The insolence of office, and the spurns.
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Carduino | Jason O'Brien
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Spark Pub | Jason O'Brien
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Half-Assed Legomena: In Dreams
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I make others say for me, not before but after me, what, either for want of language or want of sense, I cannot myself so well express.'. Tuesday, September 13, 2011. Who can say what happens at the gates of horn and ivory, somewhere beyond the wall of sleep? Most people dream, and most people who dream attempt to remember their dreams. Do we do this just to complete the puzzle of the night's events? In one of my favorite passages in Euripides, Admetus voices the desire of many a widow and widower. View ...
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Half-Assed Legomena: Two Extra Notes on Burckhardt
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I make others say for me, not before but after me, what, either for want of language or want of sense, I cannot myself so well express.'. Monday, August 22, 2011. Two Extra Notes on Burckhardt. A few more quotes from the introduction to The Greeks and Greek Civilization. Jacob Burckhardt, ed. Oswynn Murray, trans. Sheila Stern, The Greeks and Greek Civilization. St Martin's Griffin, 1999) p. xiii. And a passage a bit farther down the page, I believe from one of Burckhardt's letters. The Road to Wigan Pier.
