Extraordinary Discourse 182
Spoken-Word Shenanigans Doggie Daddy and Max Weber in the same pot! Or on it. Plus, of course, the unusual suspects. Title stolen from the intro to Spider Robinson's podcast, Spider on the Web . Go enjoy him! Everything that gets exchanged between people, whether it's spoken or not, is a form of such thought. Human beings are discourse. The rest is blood and bone and nerves. Call it speech, that flowing between us. Compare it to the sun, which us always warming us, even when we can't see it. This speech-sun is invisible, except when it takes form in language. Coleman Barks, The Soul Of Rumi …the Mercurius, the rogue who is sometimes benevolent and sometimes a trickster, an enemy to the law and the revenue officers, but a great friend to people of noble spirit, and to lovers. This Mercurius figure is by no means confined to this play alone: it is part of the apparatus of melodrama. Not infrequently the part was represented as being an Irishman, and...