an all timer!

them with ears, let ‘em hear!

*slow clap*

lol. dammit, sharon. i didn’t tag Dr Carpenter on purpose!

sharon. ok, emphatically yes, insight is a foundational aspect to human perception and understanding. but we don’t get to transcend the muddy messiness of our phenomenology, and it seems to me that sometimes Lonergan, or probably, his students, hope to secure a pure rational knowing? and we can’t?

i’m at home with my parents helping my dad recuperate after he was in a bad accident. he’s going to be ok, and i am having the best time.

mom: everett. how did you turn out like this?

me, taking a bite of sweet potatoes, smiling: you never took a book out of my hand.

as we ate, my parents asked me what i’d been thinking about, and, since it was just the three of us, i told them:

how much would Alfred North Whitehead and Hans-Georg Gadamer agree with each other on the nature of the beautiful?

so, since it was already here, we decided to tuck into our turkey and stuffing and sweet potatoes and cobbler.

yes! here Gadamer talks about play in the work of art, but i wonder if you find it helpful?

“Play itself contains its own, even sacred, seriousness. Yet, in playing, all those purposive relations that determine active and caring existence have not simply disappeared, but are curiously suspended.”

still laughing to myself about this student.

The Book Club Sting. *tweaks nose just so* *turns up the ragtime*

yes, ma’am.

lol yes, blind homer, out here tripping balls, seeing through the kaleidoscope in his mind’s eye. rosy fingered dawn. wine dark sea. white armed nymphs. hell yeah, homer. get after it, son. you break that horse.

everyone should have to do food service.

ordered.

i miss @backlon.com.