For the late John Schue —
Another event on Schue's reported date of death —
Related philosophical remarks —
Also on June 12, 2007 —
Monday, October 19, 2020
Frame Analysis
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Sunday, May 30, 2021
Framed
Related reading: "Frame Analysis" in this journal.
Update of Monday, May 31, 2021 —
For connoisseurs of bullshit —
"… it would have made for a memorable
photograph, the image preserved within
he confines of a four-by-six-inch print."
— Lincoln Perry on a remembered scene
in "If You Frame It Like That," an essay in
The American Scholar dated March 2, 2020,
linked to today at Arts & Letters Daily
(A website whose motto is VERITAS ODIT
MORAS , "Truth hates delay").
And then there is non-bullshit about a
four-by-six frame —
Bullshit addicts pondering the meaning of the letter "Q" may consult
"Q is for Quelle ," "Q is for Quality," and this journal on the above
American Scholar date — March 2, 2020.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
A Moritat for Macalester
The previous post, "Frame Analysis," was about a death
related to Macalester College.
Wikipedia on the man for whom the college was named —
"In the 1870s, Rev. Dr. Edward Duffield Neill turned to
Macalester for sponsorship for the failing institution
in Minnesota known as Jesus College. "
Logos —
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Friday, December 13, 2002
Friday December 13, 2002
Rhyme Scheme
"The introduction of Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs)
has dramatically changed the methods
astronomers use to view objects."
— Santa Barbara Instrument Group, Inc.
"They should have sent a poet."
— Jodie Foster in the film version
of Carl Sagan's Contact
|
"Say 'Abba,' Abba! CCD! — Rhyme |
On the question of what reality is:
"Under what circumstances do we think things are
real? ….
This question speaks to a small, manageable problem
having to do with the camera and not
what it is the camera takes pictures of."
— Erving Goffman,
Frame Analysis, An Essay on
the Organization of Experience,
Harper & Row, 1974, p. 2