November 24, 2008 notes

Presentations
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divination: seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown OED
coincidence is not unusual
Charles Dickens’ final chapters full of coincidence -- NOT “too contrived” as some may claim
full of the dickens, euphemistically invoking the Devil OED

the metamorphosis of adolescence
Alice | Dorothy | Lyra and CURIOUSITY -- curator, museum

Sadie : Michael Chabon
Sutter: experience, knowledge, remembrance | ignorance, forgetfulness
to “know” have sexual intercourse with (someone). [ORIGIN: a Hebraism that has passed into modern languages; cf. German erkennen, French connaître.] OED [sorry, just can't resist the old Woody Allen joke: "Don't knock masturbation ... it's sex with someone you love."]
create | procreate
Beauty is truth
Meno’s Paradox

freedom
education/knowledge: submisson/ rebellion

The Grand Inquisitor (text) from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

knowledge is liberation
Ronnie: Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Richard Wright, James Baldwin

MS: DO NOT CONDESCEND TO CHILDREN

Baghdad Cafe ; Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx

Pullman
p. 864 “tell them stories, they need the truth”
Flannery O’Connor
Eliot’s “Four Quartets: Little Gidding”

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Here, in the intersection of the timeless moment
Is England and nowhere. Never and always.

... We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

Through the unknown, unremembered gate

When the last of earth left to discover

Is that which was the beginning;

At the source of the longest river

The voice of the hidden waterfall

And the children in the apple-tree

Not known, because not looked for

But heard, half-heard, in the stillness

Between two waves of the sea.

Quick now, here, now, always—

A condition of complete simplicity

(Costing not less than everything)

And all shall be well and

All manner of thing shall be well

When the tongues of flame are in-folded

Into the crowned knot of fire

And the fire and the rose are one.

Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love 1342 – c. 1416
"...All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well"

p. 926 Dame Hannah <--> Frances Yates “consciously / intuitively”
p. 911 other ways of travelling
p. 926 not pretending but seeing

The Tempest: Prospero

“But this rough magic
I here abjure, and, when I have required
Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.”

Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell “Eternity is in love with the productions of time”

Stevens: Sunday Morning "Shall she not find in comforts of the sun ...Things to be cherished like the thought of heaven?"

Ram Dass: Be Here Now

Stephen Mitchell: Tao Te Ching "Some say that my teaching is nonsense. Others call it lofty but impractical. But to those who have looked inside themselves, this nonsense makes perfect sense." "True words seem paradoxical."

Rabbi Abraham Heschel: No Religion is An Island "No word is God's last word."
"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."