Will Cappelli

my candle burned alone in an immense valley

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Read the Four Quartets! Despite Bloom, it is greater than anything written by Stevens, Crane, Bishop, Frost, or even Pound or Williams.

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Feeling better for all of those who may care. Just listened to Fiennes' performance of Eliot's Four Quartets. Here is where I find Bloom to be verging on the evil.

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All I can say is, if you start from the Right, Bloom's support of the Canon was a late attempt to reverse course after he had done a massive amount of damage; if you start from the Left, Bloom was only concerned with ensuring that Jewish culture would not be deprecated.

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Wave function ontologists, by contrast, use the Manifest Image to force acceptance of Lucretian picture of a world made out of particles colliding in space. For them, it is, instead, the Scientific Image with its non-locality that threatens a reintroduction of sentimentality.

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Interesting use is made of Sellar's notion of the Manifest Image by scholars working on the ontology of the wave function. For Sellars, the Manifest Image was, in a sense, what allowed men to retain a sentimental narrative about themselves as the centre of the universe.

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The Scientific Image, instead, was the picture of the world which science, physics in particular, yielded. It was empty of all sentimentality but ultimately had to be accepted the final truth of things.

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Every morning I read and translate a poem written by Lorca - in roughly chronological order. Among the many things that are fascinating is the extent to which his poetry makes references to the Divine Comedy. This reinforces many childhood intuitions.

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Ed, if you don’t have the guts to insist that what you love is objectively worthy of love, then you are complicit in its destruction.

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So sad. Just read Ed Simmons’ defense of Paradise Lost. He rightfully loves the text. It is clear. And he makes a case for its greatness.

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But, in the penultimate paragraph, he wants to assure the reader that he is not a nasty conservative ‘in tweeds’ and does not accept their obviously silly claims that failing to appreciate Milton is a mark of being uneducated.

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The massive shift of investment dollars from industrial to consumer-centric IT that occurred in the late 1990s is now a spent force. Over the next 10 years, IT innovation and spend will focus on production stages remote from the point of consumption.

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In Poland, Peace May Be a Bridge Too Far https://t.co/xZoCxJUbSQ via @Geopolitical Futures

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In the long run it will not work, of course, because the effectiveness of the system depends on all of the components. The system in its entirety will collapse. But this is what is going on now and this is where one must resist if one is to be ethical.

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Wittgenstein’s idea of a language game is very relevant in the current context. Words don’t have meaning in isolation neither do they mean primarily through pointing to extra-linguistic objects.

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The recent modifications of definitions - gay ‘marriage’; non-immunising ‘vaccines’ - are very obvious attempts to change the reference of a word while retaining the system of support and behaviours around those words.