Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Pieces De Resistance All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. Henry David Thoreau or woman....

Logos Lego Borges… like Joyce…used universal culture as an instrument of p lay. Umberto Eco Borges And My Anxiety Of Influence

Aporetic Tikkun Olam It is the lucid vertigo of a language that is trying to redefine the world while it redefines itself in the full knowledge that, in an age that is still uncertain, the key to the revelation of the world can be found not in the straight line but only in the labyrinth. Umberto Eco A Portrait Of The Artist As Bachelor  

Thought Pivots A mammal swells and circles and lays him down. You and I have finished swelling; our circling periods are playing out, but we can still leave footprints in a trail whose end we do not know. Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone. Annie Dillard For The Time Being

Clips Up For Grabs There’s something in me that just wants to create dialogue.              David Mamet

Bonbons For Radical Imaginations The Divine Will in Poetry is Creative, and its inspiration is never single-minded or strait, but creates a field of meanings. Robert Duncan The Truth And Life Of Myth

Reframe By Frame Choosing one's own curriculum in the jungle of the mass media can constitute an instance of constructing one's own "humanitas." What I mean is that Woody Allen has something to do with " paideia ," while John Travolta does not: but we must not be so dogmatic. If I think about my own growth in "humanitas," I would have to put on the list of my Spiritual Sources The Imitation Of Christ, No No Nanette, Dostoyevsky, and Donald Duck. Umberto Eco The American Myth In Three Anti-American Generations