Reverence
The Grand Rapids Symphony and Chorus will perform Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls and also music from Wagner's Ring this weekend. This is an impressive program I wish I could hear.
City Journal wanders into a strange (for it, not for me) neighborhood: religion in science fiction. Author Benjamin A. Plotinsky sees the genre shifting away from its more political focus during the years of the Heinlein hegemony. Hat tip goes to He With Whom I Butt Heads, Gabriel McKee of SF Gospel, who says the article is a bit sloppy (and he has a point). Meanwhile, McKee also dismisses Watchmen in three short sentences although the movie inspired in me much the same reverent (no joke) feelings that the book did and that completely swamped all my (legitimate) artistic, political and philosophical complaints. I guess we'll have to settle for snippy snarking until the appeals process culminates with a ruling handed down from the magisterial Eve Tushnet.
Speaking of magisterial, Positive Liberty (how did I find you, PL? I'm sorry to say I've forgotten) found Allan Bloom in two forms: on video re Socrates and audio re Nietzsche.
My newest friend is Gareth Stack, a mercurial and intellectually peripatetic Irish being who sometimes adopts the nom de blogge "Professor Byron Frump" who nevertheless dares to call himself "confounded" by my "astrolabe of wingnuttery." So, Prof. Frump, what do you make of today's goulash of themes and links?
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
4 Comments:
None of the links in this post work. What gives?
-spk
Ireland? Isn't that a small island located somewhere east of Maine? Ah, the provinces. So quaint.
The invisible narrator has an odd way of speaking. It isn't proper Americanese.
-spk
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