tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post8023805434466639771..comments2024-03-07T12:57:35.296-05:00Comments on Varieties of Unreligious Experience: MalcesineConrad H. Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-40254564474077067172009-10-21T17:14:09.560-04:002009-10-21T17:14:09.560-04:00Shawn's contribution was about someone trespas...Shawn's contribution was about someone trespassing on private property, an action I don't condone, though I don't condone the overreaction of the cops, either.<br /><br />You, on the other hand, were on the Queen's highway, or at any rate that part of it dedicated to pedestrians nowadays.<br /><br />And that should make all the difference.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-75978038947030681402009-06-21T13:43:56.742-04:002009-06-21T13:43:56.742-04:00As an earnest picker on the nit front, may I point...As an earnest picker on the nit front, may I point out two places in your excellent post which the tweezers seem to have missed? <br /><br />In the clause "the young wag replies <i>ich dieses Gemäuer nicht für eine Festung anerkenne</i>", an additional "that" before <i>ich</i> (reproducing the <i>daß</i> in the original) would have led smoothly into the subordinate clause order of the German. As it is, I came to a screeching halt after reading "replies <i>ich dieses</i>". Of course, as a rule there's no point in trying to fit the syntax of a quoted language to the quoting one, or vice versa. But here, an additional "that" would be dulcifluous and free of charge. <br /><br />Then, the use of "anfractuously" where Goethe wrote the everyday <i>umständlich</i>. A cardinal character of Goethe's prose and poetry is that he doesn't pile it on, neither with vocabulary, nor syntax, nor sentence-length. I have nothing against "anfractuously" in general, in Texas we use it all the time. But if things like that were allowed to accumulate, it might make folks think Goethe was a German William Buckley.Stuart Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13707750452117583297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-82900310167466245682009-06-18T11:57:20.933-04:002009-06-18T11:57:20.933-04:00The local cows think I'm the paparazzi. They ...The local cows think I'm the paparazzi. They run now when they see me coming with my Canon 5D.AJP CROWNhttp://abadguide.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-68579848611328435572009-06-11T04:56:43.324-04:002009-06-11T04:56:43.324-04:00Chris: Thanks for the info. I do not know either C...Chris: Thanks for the info. I do not know either Cavanagh or Jagger. It certainly looks nothing like a Moore!<br /><br />Shawn's contribution, meanwhile, seems to contradict John's constitutional triumphalism, though I am in no position to judge either way.Conrad H. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-59128208039958925462009-06-10T20:49:52.507-04:002009-06-10T20:49:52.507-04:00From earlier this year: "Armed with his Canon...From earlier this year: "Armed with his Canon 5D [...] photographer Duane Kerzic set out to win Amtrak’s annual photo contest this week...He ended up getting arrested by Amtrak police; handcuffed to a wall [...] accused of criminal trespass."<br />From the "Photography Is Not A Crime" website:<br />http://carlosmiller.com/2008/12/27/amtrak-police-arrest-photographer-participating-in-amtrak-photo-contest/Shawn Thurishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09594444415956471021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-82423826689508291932009-06-10T08:37:16.808-04:002009-06-10T08:37:16.808-04:00Do you dare return to the scene of the crime to ta...Do you dare return to the scene of the crime to take more photos of the sculpture? It turns out they was made by one Francis Cavanagh, concerning whom the web has nothing more to say than "student of Henry Moore", though that malevolent figure more resembles the work of Charles Sargent Jagger.chris millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575033275184403015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-52004027560065050362009-06-09T21:11:23.257-04:002009-06-09T21:11:23.257-04:00You Brits so need to get yourself a Constitution w...You Brits <i>so</i> need to get yourself a Constitution with teeth and judicial independence that means something. Yes, this sort of thing happens here, too. But we know that if we wanted to enough we could get it stopped.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com