Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Raiders of the Lost Horizon
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Lost Horizon
Monday, January 22, 2024
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
For the Wellfed Wits
“Somewhere, someplace… there must be a lost horizon…
A Shangri-La where a man can find peace, happiness,
and lots of naked ladies.” — Carl Reiner
Voilà.
Sunday, August 9, 2020
A Turner Classic
The New York Times eulogizes a man who died Friday —
“Rabbi Steinsaltz was a prolific and wide-ranging writer
and a sharp observer of humanity who wrote more than
60 books on philosophy, mysticism, theology, even zoology.
His study of kabbalah, ‘The Thirteen Petalled Rose,’ is
considered a classic and has been translated into eight languages.”
Another classic of Jewish thought:
Thoughts of the young Carl Reiner as rendered above in 1967 —
“Somewhere, someplace… there must be a lost horizon…
A Shangri-La where a man can find peace, happiness,
and lots of naked ladies.”
Voilà.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
The Nothing That Is
Philosophy professor Agnes Callard on giving advice:
"It’s as though right before I give the advice,
I push a button that sucks all the informational
content out of what I’m about to say, and
I end up saying basically nothing at all."
— https://thepointmag.com/2019/
examined-life/against-advice-agnes-callard
From a University of Chicago description of Callard —
See as well posts before and after the above date, Jan. 3, 2018,
that are now tagged "Lost Horizon."
More generally, see a Log24 search for "Lost Horizon."
Thursday, May 2, 2019
New Year’s Eve
The previous post suggests a search for Buber in this journal
that yields a passage from New Year's Eve 2017 —
" As for 'that you in which the lines of relation, though parallel,
intersect,' and 'intimations of eternity,' see Log24 posts on
the concept 'line at infinity' as well as 'Lost Horizon.' "
Related illustrations —
From Pi Day 2017 —
"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."
From April 20, 2019 —
From "A History of Violence" —
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Ich, Du, etc., etc.
Recent posts involving the English pronoun IT referred to
classic tales of horror by Madeleine L'Engle and Stephen King.
Those posts suggest some further remarks by Martin Buber:
THE WORLD IS TWOFOLD for man
in accordance with his twofold attitude.
The attitude of man is twofold
in accordance with the two basic words he can speak.
The basic words are not single words but word pairs.
One basic word is the word pair I-You.
The other basic word is the word pair I-It;
but this basic word is not changed when
He or She takes the place of It.
Thus the I of man is also twofold.
For the I of the basic word I-You is different from
that in the basic word I-It.
— Buber, Martin. I and Thou, Trans. Kaufmann
(p. 53). Kindle Edition.
Four German pronouns from the above passage
by Martin Buber lead to six pronoun pairs:
ich-du, ich-es, ich-sie, du-es, du-sie, es-sie.
This is in accordance with some 1974 remarks by
Marie-Louise von Franz —
The following passage by Buber may confuse readers of
L'Engle and King with its use, in translation, of "it" instead of
the original German "sie" ("she," corresponding to "die Welt") —
Here, for comparison, are the original German and the translation.
As for "that you in which the lines of relation, though parallel,
intersect," and "intimations of eternity," see Log24 posts on
the concept "line at infinity" as well as "Lost Horizon."