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Francis Bacon on the Shakespearean Science of Comedy

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:39pm on 28/09/2005
From the Novum Organum. First Book of Aphorisms. No. 49. Graham Rees, trans.

"The human intellect is not a dry light but is contaminated by the will and affections; and this begets As-you-like-it Sciences*. For man would rather believe what he wishes to be true."

* "Ad quod vult Scientias"
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 08:23pm on 29/09/2005
I love it! Had to talk about "as we know it" history today -- you know, the stuff 'everybody knows' so that we base anything we say in class on those premises? A sequel to the discussion yesterday that started with "Hindsight is always 20-20. It's not surprising that no one in Germany did anything about the Holocaust, because people were much more anti-Semitic then, unlike now, when it's bad if you aren't pro-Israel ... Even if they knew what was going on, they wouldn't have cared"

*facepalm*

Not my best teaching moment ... the bit where I said, "I think the people who lived within smelling distance of giant effing human barbecues knew something was going on."

I am so not cut out for modern history/current events
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posted by [identity profile] aquitaineq.livejournal.com at 10:33pm on 29/09/2005
Hey, I'm going to go up to london the weekend before my b-day (oct 11th) and I thought I'd tell you in advance to see if you are free. A lot of my reading friends moved there so it's a great opportunity to see people again.
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posted by [identity profile] ajodasso.livejournal.com at 01:17am on 30/09/2005
Never a truer word said.
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posted by [identity profile] henchminion.livejournal.com at 04:11am on 30/09/2005
That's a spiffy icon! Where's it from?
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:38pm on 30/09/2005
It's from Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Good Government in the Sala della Pace in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. I scanned in the image and cropped it to suit. I figure it makes for a good dissertation icon, since Temperance plays such a big role in it.
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posted by [identity profile] juniperus.livejournal.com at 02:36pm on 30/09/2005
dude. did you get my email questions? I need to turn session paperwork in. I can re-send if you ened. I'm panicking!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:36pm on 30/09/2005
Sorry! The last few days have been crazy and I wasn't online at all yesterday. Just 'cause I'm panicking though doesn't mean I need to make yours worse! I'll read and respond right now.
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