Category: Classic Literature
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Gilgamesh and Skinny Dipping
Episode one of our book club podcast WESTERN CANONBALL features The Epic of Gilgamesh and some scandalous skinny dipping by Enkidu. Gilgamesh features an antihero who offends gods, slays giants, and offensively steals the wives of everyone in the kingdom. This podcast is basically a group of us meeting at my house for dinner about…
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The Wolf and The Lamb by Aesop
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading the poem The Wolf and The Lamb by Aesop. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my…
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The Cock and the Pearl by Aesop
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading the poem The Cock and The Pearl by Aesop. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my…
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Of Making Many Books There is No End ?
I grew up in a fairly conservative religious community that abhorred study and praised ignorance, in a way. They believed along with what Asimov said of many Americans: that my ignorance is as good as anyone else’s knowledge. I understand that the rational capacity of any given person is up to the task of puzzling…
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Maps of Meaning Lecture Series
HUGE thanks to Dr. Cirilla for introducing me to Dr. Jordan Peterson. I highly recommend folks take the time to sift through the Maps of Meaning lecture series by Dr. Peterson — it singly handedly redeemed the entire field of psychology and psychiatry from the baggage of my youth:
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Cult of Ignorance
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” —Isaac Asimov
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A Strong Right [song] • from 54 poems at 27
lyrics by Robert Burns arrangement by Lancelot Schaubert Note: To be sung with each verse given to a different man and all in unison at the chorus. In the spirit of an Irish drinking song. C The man, in life wherever plac’d, F …
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A Christmas Carol Stave 1 : Marley’s Ghost
Keeping with my tradition of reading Christmas stories, this year I’m doing A Christmas Carol. Of course, even Dickens’ oral manuscript that he modified original is still pretty dang long, so I’m going to have to break this sucker up into its component staves. (It’s a carol, remember?) Here’s A Christmas Carol stave 1, Marley’s Ghost. Marley’s ghost always…
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Is Advice a Vice?
In reading Emerson’s Lecture to Divinity Students, I’m struck by several thoughts, the first concerns how often we seek advice. (For noobs, I’ve been reading my way through Harvard slow and steady. So welcome all). Anyways, something that nailed me between my eyes was Emerson’s aversion to advice and counsel. A buddy of mine recently…
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10 Ways to NOT read Milton’s Poetry
BOOM: Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON At this pace, I’ll be doing good to finish these suckers by my 30th birthday. For those who have only started reading and hanging out on here this year, I’m actually in the middle of a Harvard Classic read-through. I started out sprinting like Seabiscuit but slowed…
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The Strain of the Mockingbird
for him who has ears to hear I’m a mockingbird with no new song to sing said Webb. I wanted not to mock, but to mimic the mockingbird, mimicking-mock her when I over heard her song ring through the vale: I have no meteres, fresh offrians, nothing neowe for you to sing save patches of…