"Educated people— with some exceptions, like Nader— like to explore the senses, and indeed many of your humanities courses (like the one UD ‘s teaching right now about beauty, in which we just read Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation,” with its famous concluding lines: In place of a hermeneutics, we need an erotics of art ) feature artworks and ideas that celebrate sensuality."
This suggests a review lecture on the unorthodox concept of lottery hermeneutics .
Today's New York Lottery—
A quote suggested by the UD post—
"Sainte-Beuve's Volupté (1834) introduced the idea of idler as hero (and seeking pleasurable new sensations as the highest good), so Baudelaire indulged himself in sex and drugs."
— Article on Baudelaire by Joshua Glenn in the journal Hermenaut
Some reflections suggested by Hermenaut and by the NY evening numbers, 674 and 1834—
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Cool Mystery:
Detective Cruz enters Planck's Constant Café in "The Big Bang."
As for the midday numbers—
For 412, see 4/12, and for 1030, see 10/30, Devil's Night (2005).
For further background, consult Monday's Realism in Plato's Cave.