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Monday, May 11, 2015

European Culture

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 pm

(Continued from VE Day and related recent posts.)

George Steiner vs. the Order of St. Benedict

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:28 pm

See Steiner's phrase "Language Animal" in this journal 
and the corresponding authentic  phrase from a webpage
by a Benedictine monk —

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Language Animal Farm

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 pm

The title refers to Friday's VE Day post.

See also Monkey Grammarian in this journal.

Friday, May 8, 2015

Reflections of a Language Animal*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:12 pm
 
The Idea of Europe  George Steiner

Overlook/Duckworth, pp.48, £9.99

* "Language animal" is a phrase apparently
    invented by Steiner in 1969 that he later
    attributed vaguely to the ancient Greeks.

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Tuesday December 16, 2003

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:24 pm

Moulin Bleu

  

Kaleidoscope turning…
Shifting pattern
within unalterable structure…

— Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat   

See, too, Blue Matrices, and
a link for Beethoven's birthday:

Song for the
Unification of Europe
(Blue 1)

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