Tag: Aids to Reflection
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La La Land analysis : a Humble Rebuke of Hollywood
Tara insisted I go see La La Land with her and I didn’t plan on doing a La La Land analysis, frankly. I wanted to go see the film, enjoy it, and let that be that in keeping with the reticence theme of this year-long social media hiatus. Especially since I have an analysis of Arrival, Dr.…
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Foundation Asimov Book Club Discussion
Foundation Asimov We’re going to talk about Isaac Asimov’s Foundation for today’s Book Club discussion. (The last two discussions were about The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Man in the High Castle, so feel free to go back to those posts and comment). Up next for book club discussions: Silence by Shusaku Endo — March 21st, 2017 Fletch by Gregory…
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Artistic Resistance :: Reflections
IN Aids to Reflection, Samuel Taylor Coleridge says the following (he often enjoyed employing the use of all-caps): READER!—You have been bred in a land abounding with men, able in arts, learning, and knowledges manifold, this man in one, this in another, few in many, none in all. But there is one art, of which…
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On Reflection
I’ve never been one to slog through enormous philosophical tomes, but were I to ever trudge through something that thick, I think I’d pick Aids to Reflection by Coleridge. Don’t get me wrong, I would probably enjoy a conversation with diehard fans of Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Barth. However, I’ve merely sampled them like most of us—I’m…