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Dance With Me (In The Interpretation Of Lines From Yeats)
When reading something, guessing about an author’s exact state of mind is sometimes tricky, but it’s still fun to play. Take for instance William Butler Yeats’s poem, “Among School Children.” The Yale literary critic Paul de Man once noted that … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Buddhism, creative writing, critical thinking, interpretation, philosophy, poetry, reading, the self, Yeats
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Louis CK Does a Close Reading of the Story of Abraham and Isaac
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Tagged apologetics, books, comedy, humor, interpretation, reading, religion, the Bible
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Andre Glucksmann One More Time
I think this is a great quote. It comes from the French philosopher, Andre Glucksmann: Socrates’s uncertainty revealed a rupture that gave birth to philosophy. The divine word is a mystery; it can mean everything or nothing. Zeus neither speaks nor … Continue reading
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A Sign from Zeus: Andre Glucksmann on Textual Interpretation and Emphasis
A quote doesn’t get more profound than this, so I’ll post it twice (so that you’ll read it twice). It comes from the French philosopher, Andre Glucksmann: Socrates’s uncertainty revealed a rupture that gave birth to philosophy. The divine word is … Continue reading
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Denise Levertov’s “An Ignorant Person”
Below is a glorious Denise Levertov poem, “An Ignorant Person”. The poem was written in 1959, and appeared in Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts in September of 1961 (pg. 120): Way out there where words jump in the haze is the land … Continue reading
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