tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post8640924523055835306..comments2024-03-07T12:57:35.296-05:00Comments on Varieties of Unreligious Experience: The BasiliskConrad H. Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-71738724679314324582007-05-08T00:52:00.000-04:002007-05-08T00:52:00.000-04:00"just that you're trying to be one"In fact, I'm te..."just that you're trying to be one"<BR/><BR/>In fact, I'm terrified of being one!<BR/><BR/>Re: Mozart, perhaps I am exaggerating... and re: careers, can one easily be a professional aesthete? One must eat. If academia has its disadvantages, at least it surrounds me with books, books, books!<BR/><BR/>Re: my prose: your compliments are seldom, but very rewarding. Thank you.Conrad H. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-36188769387564520522007-05-07T10:14:00.000-04:002007-05-07T10:14:00.000-04:00I wish, indeed, that all experiences might be fore...<I><BR/>I wish, indeed, that all experiences might be foreign to me. <BR/></I><BR/>As do I -- a pre-condition, I'd say, for wearing that big "A" (or "E") on your chest.<BR/><BR/>(which wouldn't mean that you *are* an aesthete -- just that you're<BR/>trying to be one) <BR/><BR/>But you've already chosen a different career path -- haven't you ? (even though I don't believe that you "cannot tell Mozart from Beethoven" - or that you're not aware of the charm of your own prose)chris millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575033275184403015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-62608837150128421942007-05-06T22:20:00.000-04:002007-05-06T22:20:00.000-04:00"Ditto 'o's as in 'oesophagus'"There's an acid-ref..."Ditto 'o's as in 'oesophagus'"<BR/><BR/>There's an acid-reflex condition called GERD, where the E stands for esophageal. Whenever I hear it, I insist it should be GORD.<BR/><BR/>"I suspect that..."<BR/><BR/>Yes, absolutely. Where to draw the line, though? Another topic.Conrad H. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-14195749294544287112007-05-05T17:41:00.000-04:002007-05-05T17:41:00.000-04:00"...[T]he American audacity to spell the word with..."...[T]he American audacity to spell the word without an a is clearly why their country is going to the dogs."<BR/><BR/>Too bloody right. Ditto 'o's as in 'oesophagus' and 'oestrus'.<BR/><BR/>"Philistinism makes me sick with loathing, and yet I take more pleasure in being a philistine than in being a connoisseur."<BR/><BR/>I suspect that the philistinism you enjoy is not that of bullish ignorance, but rather comes from an educated rebellion against just that "heaviness of expectation."<BR/><BR/>Such is the neophile's burden.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-81082717448145999292007-05-05T08:44:00.000-04:002007-05-05T08:44:00.000-04:00Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises,Sounds, ...Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises,<BR/>Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.<BR/>Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments<BR/>Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,<BR/>That if I then had wak'd after long sleep,<BR/>Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming,<BR/>The clouds methought would open, and show riches<BR/>Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak'd<BR/>I cried to dream again.<BR/><BR/>The Tempest III.ii.135-43Malonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04345790207108760002noreply@blogger.com