tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post8454143643345726452..comments2024-03-07T12:57:35.296-05:00Comments on Varieties of Unreligious Experience: OceanographyConrad H. Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-16931983370361786512007-10-15T21:44:00.000-04:002007-10-15T21:44:00.000-04:00Thanks, John. I envy me too.Greg, yes, I have read...Thanks, John. I envy me too.<BR/><BR/>Greg, yes, I have read it, though I prefer Barth's longer work, such as <EM>Tidewater Tales</EM> and <EM>The Church Dogmatics</EM>.Conrad H. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-42736680379233679162007-10-15T14:57:00.000-04:002007-10-15T14:57:00.000-04:00I messed it up, characteristically. Better quote h...I messed it up, characteristically. Better quote <A HREF="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:7z3Z4FfLxQIJ:mail.hlgs.hlc.edu.tw/~springhero/End.htm+http://mail.hlgs.hlc.edu.tw/~springhero/End.htm&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Greg Afinogenovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13529073439919307693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-12065639754542775532007-10-15T14:44:00.000-04:002007-10-15T14:44:00.000-04:00Have you ever read John Barth's The End of the Ro...Have you ever read John Barth's <I> The End of the Road</I>? "Mythotherapy" literally saved my life.<BR/><BR/><I> It’s extremely important you learn to assume these masks wholeheartedly. Don’t you think there’s anything behind them: ego means I, and I means ego, and the ego by definition is a mask. Where there’s no ego—this is you on the bench—there’s no I. If you sometimes have the feeling that your mask is insincere—impossible word!---it’s because one of your masks is incompatible with another. You mustn’t put on two at a time. There’s a source of conflict, and conflict between masks, like absence of masks, is a source of immobility. There more sharply you can dramatize your situation, and define your own role and everybody else’s role, the safer you’ll be. It doesn’t matter. Mythotherapy for paralytics whether your role is a major or minor, as long as it’s clearly conceived, but in the nature of things it’ll normally always be major.</I>Greg Afinogenovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13529073439919307693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-31758843294312034542007-10-15T12:21:00.000-04:002007-10-15T12:21:00.000-04:00I should have said, BYW, that I envy you. Sounds l...I should have said, BYW, that I envy you. Sounds like a good place to be.John Emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12058849885222086640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-21998236039902654592007-10-14T16:18:00.000-04:002007-10-14T16:18:00.000-04:00chaos is my name.happy all the time.chaos is my name.<BR/><BR/>happy all the time.Phanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-64272368381223482242007-10-14T12:01:00.000-04:002007-10-14T12:01:00.000-04:00It is only natural, then, after my rush of excitem...<I>It is only natural, then, after my rush of excitement last week, the satisfaction of pent-up needs, that the novelty should have palled, leaving me wound and nervy by the end of the week.</I><BR/><BR/>Well, Freud was a cocaine addict. I had extended periods of happiness and well being in my life, though not very recently.John Emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12058849885222086640noreply@blogger.com