"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified
for an instructor as youth, for it has not
profited so much as it has lost.
One may almost doubt if the wisest man
has learned anything of absolute value
by living." (Walden)
“You talk like you’re standing on two donkeys
each racing in the opposite direction, Sam”
(An FB friend and former student)
Yes, but all things are possible with Gödel,
my polymath correspondent tells me.
I try to talk out of 3 sides of my mouth at
once. Triadic if not Trinitarian.
How else aspire to holistic thinking?
Not tidy. Not so critical Critical Thinking.
Sometimes I might ride on a beam of light
and think about relatives, relativity and
relationship..
It’s possible.
Holy Grail
(always right under our gnosis)
Argument: I.E. arg -“to shine”
build up a shared shining. Edify.
Facebook: my Groves of Academe,
Stoic Porch, Hyde Park, Mall,
Circus de Soleil, Cerebral
& Affective Gymnasium.
Academics-a-um
I argue daily with liberals & conservatives,
lapsed fundamentalists, born again Christians,
atheists & Lutherans, former students and
occasionally a colleague—far and wee: little
lame balloon man stretching from Asheville
to Santa Cruz, Canada, England, Ireland &
Germany, South America, of course, & China
toward frontiers yet unknown peripatetic
porch-sitter, Epicurean & Hedonist all at
once.
Doesn’t matter the token subject, object,
content, who’s on top, who’s on bottom:
it’s the exchange going on and on that
counts--verbal commerce, converse
action, o no you din’t, what: you
got a problem with that?
Sons & daughters of Hermes throwing rice
at rhinos and knowing neither logic nor
sermons convince but always the
play’s the thing wherein we
catch the conscience of a
king.
grail
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