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Saturday, October 14, 2017
Womb-of-All, Home-of-all, Hearse-of-All Night
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Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves by Gerard Manley Hopkins Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous, … stupendous Eveni...
Friday, October 13, 2017
Dashed Off XXII
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It is problematic to treat florilegia as a bunch of texts piled together rather than as building an impression in 'brushstrokes'. ...
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Evening Note for Thursday, October 12
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Thought for the Evening: Of the Logic of Imperatives Inference is often assumed to be a matter of assertions; but there are good reasons f...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Originality and Eccentricity
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The odd manner in which Mr. Mill worships mere variety, and confounds the proposition that variety is good with the proposition that goodnes...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Subject to Truth and Free Because of It
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The will to know, and to know freely, corresponds to the idea of creation. The created world is rational, and this means that we can know ...
John of St. Thomas and the Verecundia Problem
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I've noted before that there are some puzzles about Aquinas's treatment of verecundia as an integral part of the virtue of temperan...
Monday, October 09, 2017
Music on My Mind
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Billy Joel,"Miami 2017". A bit of sci-fi apocalypticism from 1976.
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