27 September 2004
what is this picture?
johneffay responds interestingly to k-punk on courtly love.
Teaching today - it really seems to be a question of pretending to be a teacher, doesn't it? (I am not yet in bad faith, note). Still, nobody got hurt, inferences were made, Thought thought itself at least a couple of times (erm, possibly). I like the kids so far tho - they may be twice the size of me, but they're pretty cool (especially the goth girls).
if this is true, this is quite astonishing. Haven't people been campaigning for this for years (and wasn't the Millennium supposed to be the year the debt was dropped?). They'll have to do more about tariffs though for this to be any more than a gesture....
'Do we have today,' Sartre asks, 'the means to constitute a structural, historical anthropology?'. I bloody hope so. If I spend any more time thinking about flesh and its weaknesses I'm going to hack a limb off. Damn all this 'nesting' and 'feasting' - if Britons get any more into cooking and decorating their houses, they'll suffocate. Overlaid with yet another layer of paint, the walls close in around increasingly lardy corpii. Soon everyone will be room-shaped and stuck, a dent in their bellies where the tv resides. Surely people are sick (literally) of this faffling about like moneyed peacocks? I'm convinced that we will soon see a return to prime-time shows on theology, politics and philosophy - especially of the purging kind (catharsis in Aristotle's work on tragedy, Mao's 'slightly obese leap forward', 'the ascetic life of Simone Weil', etc.)...
I repeat my claim that we must remain lean - stay hungry, stay agitated, drink espresso not cappucino (if you must), eat like a hyena, not a panda....
Speaking of purges....see which circle of Dante's Hell you'd end up in. I think I'm in the sixth - tho as a 'philosopher' I'm supposed to be with children and animals, I believe.
Plus, sure you've all seen this before, but it endlessly amuses me (after hours of eating gruel and scarring my fingernails with a razor of course): The Brick Testament
'If all the trees of the earth were pens, and the sea, replenished by seven more seas, were ink, the words of God could not be finished still.' - 'Luqmān', the Koran.
