tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51108785191397059662024-03-16T02:28:44.089-07:00Literature FoolThis blog, as the title implies, is designed to offer thoughts on literature, philosophy, writers and writing, people, places, current events, the meaning of life, famous and unknown thinkers, celebrated prose stylists, artists and their art, scholars, philosophers, fools, pariahs, introverts, wallflowers, neat freaks, fiber addicts, social wannabees and also-rans; it includes daily observations, news-driven commentaries, book reviews and "great-writer" recommendations.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger330125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110878519139705966.post-37229895776704822772021-10-20T07:00:00.005-07:002021-10-20T07:00:26.120-07:00Hannah Arendt on Ideology...<p><span style="font-size: large;"> "An ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the 'riddles of the universe,' or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man." - <b>Hannah Arendt </b>- <b>The Origins of Totalitarianism</b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110878519139705966.post-34553553966361834432021-08-03T09:37:00.008-07:002021-08-04T08:57:35.065-07:00My Haphazard Summer Reading List (2021)<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOoQKKWERjeZtP1MPFEAnxQOafhoXnFqrq3iz9rklG2YU44Ro1qFJFH0E0YkhPMdgJ2oexYE-9KpKvPre4gNLoyqrbgXYcjPXZQbX0vQX6pVHV9Unm3AxwN5l6SVaqQiWGyUn6Ti7WOrk/s280/images-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="180" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOoQKKWERjeZtP1MPFEAnxQOafhoXnFqrq3iz9rklG2YU44Ro1qFJFH0E0YkhPMdgJ2oexYE-9KpKvPre4gNLoyqrbgXYcjPXZQbX0vQX6pVHV9Unm3AxwN5l6SVaqQiWGyUn6Ti7WOrk/w180-h297/images-3.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /><br /></p><p> <b>Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman</b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQguTIgF5_yderLA7tiIjZ-OS9CKO_P4_4CpXoBYM4okM4ikJlxM7aZ4I10vqBiwdjWhpmzSGVRftnjNYLS2CCLSbJ1d8EZ9WOS8i7T3y0ZBw0zO8010yDgOIixOpQhgtHdrxMxRxUlJw/s474/41EBE8EQHGL._SX297_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="299" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQguTIgF5_yderLA7tiIjZ-OS9CKO_P4_4CpXoBYM4okM4ikJlxM7aZ4I10vqBiwdjWhpmzSGVRftnjNYLS2CCLSbJ1d8EZ9WOS8i7T3y0ZBw0zO8010yDgOIixOpQhgtHdrxMxRxUlJw/s320/41EBE8EQHGL._SX297_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" width="202" /></a></p><p> <b>An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span class="quote_span" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8;">Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of <span class="shighlight" data-markjs="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">violence</span> by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.</span></a>" - <span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-size: 14px;">As quoted in "The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky" (1972), p. 11.</span></p><p><a class="quote_link" href="https://libquotes.com/vladimir-lenin/quote/lbh4h8d" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span class="quote_span" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8;">We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by <span class="shighlight" data-markjs="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">violence</span>. When <span class="shighlight" data-markjs="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">violence</span> is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters — then we are for it!</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, "sans serif"; font-size: 28px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, "sans serif"; font-size: 14px;">"Report on the Activities of the Council of People's Commissars" (24 January 1918); Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 459-61. </span></p><p><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">"Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts <u>must be crushed without pity</u>. You must make an example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people." - Lenin's "Hanging Order for the Kulaks" (1918)</span></p><p class="single-quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, "sans serif"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 33px; margin: 20px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">"Thousands of practical forms and methods of accounting and controlling the rich, the rogues and the idlers must be devised and put to a practical test by the communes themselves, by small units in town and country. Variety is a guarantee of effectiveness here, a pledge of success in achieving the single common aim—to </span><em style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px; word-spacing: 0.2em;">clean</em><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"> the land of Russia of all <b>vermin</b>, of <b>fleas</b>—the rogues, of <b>bugs</b>—the rich, and so on and so forth. In one place half a score of rich, a dozen rogues, half a dozen workers who shirk their work (in the manner of rowdies, the manner in which many compositors in Petrograd, particularly in the Party printing-shops, shirk their work) <u>will be put in prison</u>. In another place they <u>will be put to cleaning latrines</u>. In a third place they <u>will be provided with "yellow tickets"</u> after they have served their time, so that <u>everyone shall keep an eye on them,</u> as </span><em style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px; word-spacing: 0.2em;">harmful</em><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"> persons, until they reform. In a fourth place, one out of every ten idlers <u>will be shot on the spot</u>." - From "How to Organize Competition," December, 1917</span></span></p><p class="single-quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, "sans serif"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 33px; margin: 20px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">"The Council of People’s Commissars, having heard the report of the Chairman of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution, Speculation and Crime about the activities of this Commission, finds: that in the present situation the safeguarding of the rear <u>by <b>means of terror </b>is necessary</u>; that it is necessary to send a greater number of responsible party comrades to the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution, Speculation and Crime in order to strengthen its work and to introduce into it a more <b><u>systematic character</u>;</b> that it is necessary to safeguard the Soviet Republic from class enemies <u>by isolating them in <b>concentration camps</b></u>; that all persons associated with White Guard organizations, plots and rebellions <u>are liable to be shot</u>; that it is necessary to <u>publish the names of all those shot and the reasons for shooting them</u>." - "Resolution on Red Terror," September 5, 1918</span></span></span></p><p class="single-quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, "sans serif"; font-size: 28px; 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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz</b> - one of the most brilliant minds of all time - a true polymath...contributor to logic, mathematics, history, linguistics, ethics, politics, law, philosophy, theology and natural</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Leibniz gave us the following philosophical gems: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>the principle of sufficient reason </b><i>- </i>everything that exists must have a <u>reason</u> for existing or a <u>cause</u> for its being ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>plenitude </b><i>- </i>that the existing universe must necessarily actualize all possible (i.e. viable) forms of existence...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>monads</b> - simple substances, immaterial and indivisible, without parts, akin to spiritualized atoms or atomic "souls"...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>pre-established harmony </b>- the harmony or pre-established order that regulates causal interactions between substances within Nature...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>identity of indiscernibles</b> - the principle that no two numerically distinct entities can possess absolutely identical properties - which perhaps means that there are no absolute clones or doppelgangers... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>middle knowledge</b><i> -</i> the idea that God has foreknowledge of everything in the sense of having knowledge of all contingent possibilities of what can and will occur...i.e. knowing everything that can happen without compelling everything to happen in a particular manner...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>necessary being </b>- a.k.a.<b> </b>the <b>complete notion</b> or the <b>complete concept</b> of individuals - the idea that for any given entity, all possible predicates that pertain to individual X are included in the subject, "X" - i.e. all actions, relations or events involving individual X are contained within the ontological concept of X...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>intelligent souls </b>-</span><span style="font-size: large;"> minds, unlike other substances in nature, are self-aware, able to reflect on themselves in relation to other entities...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>the republic of minds</b> - minds are created to be in communion with other intelligences...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>the principle of continuity</b> - the idea that "nothing [ever] happens suddenly"...or that "Nature never takes leaps"...the process of change always includes an <u>infinity</u> of intermediary steps....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">...As Leibniz writes: "the rules of the finite also succeed for the infinite..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>little perceptions </b>- infinite, composite, unconscious perceptions that help to "mirror" or "instantiate" the reality of the [surrounding] world within our own minds...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>possible worlds or the principle of the best </b>- the notion God is <u>compelled by reason</u> to choose the optimum scenario out of a set of lesser alternatives - thus making 'this' (i.e. the cosmos in aggregate) the "best of all possible worlds"...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Professor Stephen Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison) has written a very wonderful, engaging, accessible account of the debate about God and the creation of the universe - by three of the 17th century's most prescient minds of the era, namely Leibniz, Malebranche and Arnauld...Professor Nadler also includes very helpful discussions about Descartes and Spinoza....</span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110878519139705966.post-72862964635780453732018-09-29T10:24:00.003-07:002018-09-29T10:24:32.057-07:00...On Acknowledging the Shadow Within...<span style="font-size: large;">"We are still almost certain we know what other people think or what their true character is. We are convinced that certain people have all the </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">bad qualities </span></i><span style="font-size: large;">we do not know in ourselves or that they live all those </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">vices</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> which could, of course, never be our own. We must still be exceedingly careful in order not to project our own shadows too shamelessly; we are still swamped with projected illusions. If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw these projections, all and sundry, then you get an individual conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">they </span></i><span style="font-size: large;">do this or that, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>they</i> are wrong and </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">they</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> must be fought against. He lives in the "house of self-collection." Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow then he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in removing an infinitesimal part at least of the unsolved gigantic, social problems of our day. These problems are unwieldy and poisoned by mutual projections. How can anyone see straight when he does not even see himself and that darkness which he himself carries unconsciously into all his dealings?" - Carl Jung, from </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">Psychology and Religion</span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110878519139705966.post-55111395373272728452018-08-18T15:28:00.002-07:002020-06-30T15:17:35.448-07:00Civil Rights and the Justice System / Essential Reading<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America </i>by Patrick Phillips</span></b><br />
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A highly-recommended true-crime saga of L.A.'s most notorious unsolved murder - with lots of great background info on the noir-like atmosphere of old Los Angeles, the corruption within the LAPD, the sketchy suspects taken right out of central casting, including the haunting auras of Elizabeth Short, Dr. J. Paul De River, Aggie Underwood and Leslie Dillon. If you have an interest in criminal psychology - this might be the book for you...</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110878519139705966.post-2708585744264640072018-06-11T07:16:00.000-07:002018-07-16T11:20:08.234-07:00A True-Crime Chronology<b><i>In Cold Blood </i>by Truman Capote (1966)</b><br />
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<b>Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein</b><br />
(the story of how New York City went broke in 1975 and the fallout that ensued...)<br />
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<b>The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh</b><br />
(Hersh's controversial and eyebrow-raising expose of the sordid underbelly of the Kennedy presidency....JFK's private persona does not at all match his public image...Ugh...)<br />
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<b>Havana Nocturne by T. J. English</b><br />
(Interesting fast-paced narrative about the Mob's control of Havana - focusing on Meyer Lansky, Santo Traficante, Fulgencio Batista, and Fidel Castro)<br />
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<b>The Age of Eisenhower by William Hitchcock</b></div>
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(a well-written, generally positive reappraisal of the Eisenhower years...)</div>
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<b>Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot</b></div>
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(A grand tour of San Francisco history - episodically focusing on various decades and colorful personalities - with emphasis on the 60's and 70's)</div>
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(Ordinary guy, not one for introspection, heads straight into the storm, leaving his boat mates mystified...)<br />
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<b>Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings by Mike Weiss</b><br />
[A gripping, character-driven account of the 1978 murders of City Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone... ]</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110878519139705966.post-68700970632154057852017-08-16T13:43:00.004-07:002018-04-05T09:19:50.803-07:00Compelling Euro Crime Dramas<b>Bron/Broen (The Bridge) - > Sweden/Denmark</b><br />
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<b>Happy Valley - > Britain</b><br />
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<b>Hraunio (The Lava Field) - > Iceland</b><br />
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<b>La Treve (The Break) - > Belgium</b><br />
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<b>Line of Duty - > Britain</b><br />
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<b>The Missing - > Britain/France</b><br />
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<b>Bla Ogon (Blue Eyes) - > Sweden</b><br />
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<b>Ofaero (Trapped) - > Iceland</b><br />
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<b>Wallander - > Sweden</b><br />
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<b>Hinterland - > Wales</b><br />
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<b>The Fall - > Northern Ireland</b><br />
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<b>Forbrydelsen (The Killing) -> Denmark</b><br />
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<b>The Missing - > Sweden</b><br />
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<b>Svartsjon (Black Lake) - > Sweden/Denmark/Norway</b><br />
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<b>Valkyrien - > Norway</b><br />
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<b>Death in Florence: The Medici, Savanarola and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City by Paul Stathern</b></div>
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<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">"In life, you see, there is not much choice. You have either to rot or to burn. And there is not one of us, painted or unpainted, that would not rather burn than rot.” </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">― </span><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3345.Joseph_Conrad" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Joseph Conrad</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">, </span><span id="quote_book_link_143511" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3199934" style="color: #666600; text-decoration: none;">Under Western Eyes</a></i></span></b></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110878519139705966.post-14932623518293876882015-08-25T17:09:00.002-07:002015-09-01T15:59:02.441-07:00Selected Short Stories for 9th Graders "<b>The Monkey's Paw</b>" by W.W. Jacobs - "<b>The Beginning of Grief</b>" by Larry Woiwode -<br />
"<b>Masque of the Red Death</b>" by Edgar Allan Poe - "<b>Harrison Bergeron</b>" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - "<b>The Bet</b>" by Anton Chekhov - "<b>The Egg</b>" by Sherwood Anderson - "<b>In Another Country</b>" by Ernest Hemingway - "<b>Gryphon</b>" by Charles Baxter - "<b>The Doll's House</b>" by Katherine Mansfield - "<b>Old Mother Savage</b>" by Guy de Maupassant - "<b>The Black Sheep</b>" by Italo Calvino - "<b>The Secret Lion</b>" by Alberto Alvaro Rios - "<b>Day of the Butterfly</b>" by Alice Munro "<b>The Child by Tige</b>r" by Thomas Wolfe - "<b>The Prisoner Wore Glasses</b>" by Bessie Head - "<b>Once Upon a Time</b>" by Nadine Gordimer - "<b>Barn Burning</b>" by William Faulkner - "<b>The Three Strangers</b>"by Thomas Hardy - "<b>The Possibility of Evil</b>" by Shirley Jackson - "<b>The Destructors</b>" by Graham Greene<br />
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"And what is the most potent myth of all?' she went on, in the slightly ringing tones that caused him to make a discreet sign to the waiter for the bill. 'The tortoise and the hare,' she pronounced. 'People love this one, especially women. Now you will notice, Harold that in my books it is the mouse-like un-assuming girl who gets the hero, while the scornful temptress with whom he has had a stormy affair retreats baffled from the fray, never to return. The tortoise wins every time. This is a lie, of course,' she said, pleasantly, but with authority, the kiwi fruit slipping back unnoticed onto her plate. 'In real life, of course, it is the hare who wins. Every time...Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. The propaganda goes all the other way, but only because it is the tortoise who is in need of consolation. Like the meek who are going to inherit the earth,' she added with a brief smile...." - from <b><i>Hotel du Lac</i></b> by <b>Anita Brookner</b></div>
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The rhetoric of morality has been tying us in knots of late, although perhaps people do not notice the dilemma. Think of the way in which specific issues keep getting framed as advancing the goals of e<i>quality, acceptance </i>and <i>liberation</i> from social intolerance, while attitudes that appear to run counter to or present as openly resistant to this paradigm of inclusivity are deemed unacceptable. While the old world made its peace with social hierarchies, class divisions and serious inequities caused by accidents of background, orientation and epidermal pallor, the new world has no room for such snobbery. Harboring such prejudices nowadays usually places one (typically an aging stick-in-the-mud) on the <i>wrong side of history</i>. Thus we demand for ourselves - at least rhetorically - a utopia that our progenitors never thought possible...The goal sounds great and is quite simple in fact: it requires that we not categorize or stereotype other people in a way that harms or marginalizes them. Simple - right? Everyone is "equal" and should be viewed as such. Do people have preferences in terms of friends, companions, loved ones? - most definitely - but no one is technically any better than anyone else nor should be viewed as such - in a social manner or before the law. I hope this is a somewhat accurate depiction of the dominant zeitgeist. And yet this cultural shift calls for not a little bit of soul-searching or closet-cleaning - as it were, to the extent that it requires each and every individual living in the present "heartless, cut-throat, take-no-prisoners, dog-eat-dog" world out there to ask: <i>do I truly consider everyone my equal - both "before the law" and "socially" - i.e. according to all the agreed-upon cultural norms and litmus tests</i>? If in theory - rhetorically that is - all systems are go - as far as granting one's neighbor the same rights and courtesies, the same basic dignity, the same respect, what explains the strange need for enmity, hostility, antagonism - that animates so many? Why the need for enemies and adversaries? Paradoxically, it seems, the more we attempt to free ourselves from outmoded prejudices, antiquated thought patterns, and backward modes of behavior where unjust social hierarchies and fatuous notions of "supremacy" and "superiority" are concerned, which is to say, the more our <i>egalitarian sentiments</i> and <i>equal-justice-for-all </i>demands come to permeate the modern discourse of "right and wrong," the more perhaps we find ourselves called upon to actively <u>suppress</u> all hint of aristocratic bias - in the form of uppity, conceited, patronizing, snobbish, supremacist, reactionary, exclusionist or otherwise aggressively tribalistic or class-conscious notions of "<i>I'm so sorry my poor fellows, but, we're above you on the ladder of success because we have such and such and you don't</i>..." - feelings that (as some have noticed) do not simply vanish into thin air after we have declared them <i>verboten</i>. To say it another way, very concisely, and in a manner too obvious for today's media to properly digest: while paying lip service to "fairness" and "equality," people do not simply aspire to be the mere "equal" of anyone else, nor do they view themselves as "identical to" or "interchangeable with" their fellow citizens. Is it going too far to admit that some people even want to stand out from their peers just a little, want to feel themselves (dare I say it?) exceptional, outstanding, superior, top-notch in some respect? Does not the entire system of capitalism run on such agonistic, competitive juices? If it is really true, as Descartes taught us long ago, that the "ego cogito" views itself as no less "sensible" or well-deserving than any other thinking subject, the converse also applies, namely that every restlessly aspiring ego paradoxically by the same token considers itself "special" in some respect - blessed by its own inimitable, individual stamp. What some have dubbed the incommensurability issue - the fact that no one else can be identical to "me" in my present position with all of its advantages and challenges - represents the other side of the coin. And, as should go without saying, more than a few folks out there (secretly) enjoy a pretext upon with which they might feel some legitimate advantage over another group or individual. (Even though this be cause for guilt or at least a certain ambivalence in some liberal quarters....) Consider the pride that people take with regard to their exquisite health or their outstanding beauty for example. Consider how external fashion separates one person from another on a scale of merit. Consider how elite educations are still prized for helping to (presumably) identify top scholars and future achievers (?). Consider how proper hygiene is too often mistaken for virtue. Consider how money and property, salary and bank account, still are used to divide us from them. And while we're on the topic, what about the wretched unfairness associated with gold-thumbed financial prowess and good business sense - the talent for making-money - so unevenly distributed - and yet so celebrated by the victors. Granted, there are many pointless and destructive comparisons that people make with one another; there are many unhealthy and uncivil ways in which they relentlessly attempt to gain a "competitive edge" - but can we eliminate entirely this lust for prominence, power, status, fame, wealth and glory? How will all of these forbidden thoughts go underground? Or is this a case - yet, yet again - of the rhetoric not matching the reality?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110878519139705966.post-5827948689044809182015-06-20T11:14:00.003-07:002015-07-30T14:21:09.219-07:00Summer Reading - 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The following excerpt - taken from his famous "prison correspondence" - is uncannily in sync with the present-day zeitgeist of the secular, self-made "artistic-minded" individual. But is Wilde really convinced that in the future all of us will pursue life as art - hungry for new and messy experiences - ready to disregard prior orthodoxies? And do you follow him down the same road - truth seeker?</div>
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"<b>Morality</b> does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for <u>exceptions</u>, not for <u>laws.</u> But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that...<b>Religion</b> does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also. When I think about religion at all, I feel as if I would like to found an order for those who <i>cannot</i> believe: the Confraternity of the Faithless, one might call it, where on an altar, on which no taper burned, a priest, in whose heart peace had no dwelling, might celebrate with unblessed bread and a chalice empty of wine. Every thing to be true must become a religion. <i> And <b>agnosticism</b> should have its ritual no less than faith. It has sown its martyrs, it should reap its saints, and praise God daily for having hidden Himself from man. </i> But whether it be faith or agnosticism, it must be nothing external to me. Its symbols must be of my own creating. Only that is spiritual which makes its own form. If I may not find its secret within myself, I shall never find it: if I have not got it already, it will never come to me." - from <b><i>De Profundis </i></b></div>
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