buy stromectol scabies online Listening to The Cure recently, I was surprised to discover that their song Killing an Arab – which to my youthful mind seemed merely the intentional offensiveness we are so often told is the proper province of (modern) art – is in fact a fairly close pop-song rendition of Albert Camus’ The Stranger. I didn’t […]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Camus and The Cure.
10-Sep-11Quote of the Day.
07-Sep-11Wunstorf “Well the fact is everything in life is uncertain, friends, but you can’t just go around using the subjunctive all the time.” -Reginald Foster
As You Like It.
06-Sep-11“Then is there mirth in heaven, When earthly things made eaven attone together.” – 5.4 As a subject for an essay I would prefer one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” such as All’s Well That Ends Well, or Measure for Measure, which in performance simply do not satisfy our sense of propriety; but for an afternoon’s […]
Ah, the language, the language.
05-Sep-11From As You Like It: “Like an ill roasted Egge, all on one side.” Its actual application was not exciting in context, but it can be used most judiciously in life, for all forms of partiality and ill-development. I have a facsimile edition at the cabin of the First Folio, the spellings of which are […]
Good Sense.
04-Sep-11Robert Reich on reinvigorating the middle class. Worth reading. The evidence goes against all Hannityism and Limbaughism and, in short, Republicanism: as long as money goes “to the people who create jobs,” and Republican code for “the rich,” the economy will suffer: It’s no mere coincidence that over the last century the top earners’ share […]
Well, this is the Forest of Arden.
04-Sep-11At the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival this weekend, where I was treated to the pleasures of the usual players, including David Aston-Reese’s melancholy Jaques, immersed in nature, “weeping and commenting upon the sobbing deer.” I intend to enlarge on this theme later. After watching these shows, I swear, I am so immersed in the language that […]
Nicholas of Cusa, Theology, and Reason.
02-Sep-11There’s a neat little article by Mark Goldblatt on reason’s relationship to the concept of infinity, and hence, to God; it is unfortunately given the idiot title “theology is dead” (the title is probably not the writer’s fault). As with most modern writing, the best part is when he borrows the thoughts of a much […]
Too Many Cucumbers.
02-Sep-11Looks like I need to research new and exciting ways to eat cucumbers. I harvested 15 today, and the plants are not slowing down in the least. 15 per week seems plausible for the rest of September. The payoff is really quite amazing. I bought a pack of something like a hundred seeds for $1.69. […]
Botanical Latin.
01-Sep-11I’ll be attempting the impossible this Saturday, trying to make botanical Latin interesting at a talk at Catskill Native Nursery. Ten a.m. Probably headed that evening for the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival.
Excitable/Orwellian Andrew.
05-Sep-11I am as big a fan of Andrew Sullivan as can be, but I was impressively disappointed by his memorial of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. I don’t disagree with the general point, that ten years on what is most salient is that our “homeland security” response – invasion of foreign countries, unregulated torture of […]