Christopher Forman

CEO of The Decurion Corporation

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#ModPoLive Thanks, Al! Great webcast.

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#ModPoLive This poem brings to mind e e cummings’s “i thank You God for this most amazing / day.” Do we know which came first? Did one influence the other?

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We don’t seem to talk much about the syllabic nature of many of Corman’s poems. #ModPoLive

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@ModPoPenn Interesting poetry from the late 19th century (though from England and not published until later): Gerard Manley Hopkins. #ModPoLive

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JL Austin distinguished "locution", the act of speaking, from "illocution": the thing done in the world by that act.The Economist #ModPoLive

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@ModPoPenn "The accounts we give of things [should] have the same character as the subjects they set forth." Plato, Timaeus (29b3-5)

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Bob Dylan? #ModPoLive

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@oliverburkeman Just watched "A Face in the Crowd." Not sure I need to watch the Presidential Debate tonight.

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"And I have known the eyes already, known them all-- / The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase" T. S. Eliot #ModPoLive

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Is Stein interesting and important primarily because of her influence on others? #ModPoLive

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Do the first two lines suggest Eliot? #modpolive

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"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

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@bbctms Why does the Internet feed work on wifi and not on 3G?

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the dayEBWhite

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From The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton:

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@nick_maniatis Yes, please!

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The New Yorker's Anthony Lane on the Oscars: http://t.co/K2kKjZabCu

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@nprscottsimon @AppIeOfflciaI Not Martin Scorsese?

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Just saw Interstellar at ArcLight Hollywood in the Dome. Spectacular! Reminds me why we're in this business.

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Teach us to care and not to care teach us to sit still.