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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Bee Season

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:23 am

See the 2005 post Structure and a Log24 search for Bumblebee.

Steinfeld as Rose the Hat

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:02 am

Above, Hailee Steinfeld in a fanciful portrayal
of poet Emily Dickinson.

"Wakey, Wakey!" — Doctor Sleep

Language Games: Reflection

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:20 am

The conclusion of an elegy for George Steiner 
in th Times Literary Supplement  issue dated
March 13, 2020 —

"What distinguishes humans from other animals, Johann Gottfried Herder
suggested in his essay On the Origin of Language (1772), is not so much
their capacity for language as their capacity for arriving at general reflection
(Besonnenheit ) through language. Few thinkers of the postwar era can be
said to have pursued this reflection with as much range and rigour as George
Steiner.

Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent
and Director of the Paris School of Arts and Culture. His most recent book is 

Comparative Literature: A very short introduction, 2018 ."

See as well . . .

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Hunger Game for a “Pop Culture Star”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:46 pm

"A hunger to be more serious"

Arts & Letters Daily  on the late
    George Steiner, who reportedly
    died on February 3, 2020

The New York Times  on a Sunday death —

A Midrash —

Serious —

Elegy for a Language Animal

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

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