tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post7239145780158523013..comments2024-03-10T23:01:51.493-05:00Comments on Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing: Beckett vs. Juan Ramón Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-44423402666666618322013-01-04T16:55:26.615-06:002013-01-04T16:55:26.615-06:00Thanks for re-pointing out the link, Thomas, I thi...Thanks for re-pointing out the link, Thomas, I think I was reading in the dark and did not realize there was one. It's a great post and I've linked to it now.<br /><br />(OT: say godt nytaar to Copenhagen, one of my cities!!! I am a fan from back to exchange student days, in the family of Gylendaal reader, poet and bard Regin Dahl, b. Torshávn, RIP.)Professor Zerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909063513731044826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-1004047808625573022013-01-04T16:15:10.638-06:002013-01-04T16:15:10.638-06:00How did you know in 2011 that I would need to know...How did you know in 2011 that I would need to know about Auden's Apollo / Hermes distinction in 2013? That's amazing. <br /><br />I knew parts of the poem, the part about social science, but had forgotten the Nietzschean parallel. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-11601349930372487712013-01-04T15:27:15.753-06:002013-01-04T15:27:15.753-06:00It is a very, very prescient poem. Disturbing real...It is a very, very prescient poem. Disturbing really.<br /><br />@Prof. Zero: I did actually try to indicate my meaning by making "Apollonian" a link to my post on the subject (in my first comment).<br /><br />I feel the same way about Auden, by the way.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-66186458204992408272013-01-04T14:30:36.585-06:002013-01-04T14:30:36.585-06:00Thou shalt not do as the dean pleases,
Thou shalt ...Thou shalt not do as the dean pleases,<br />Thou shalt not write thy doctor’s thesis<br /> On education,<br />Thou shalt not worship projects nor<br />Shalt thou or thine bow down before<br /> Administration.<br /><br />Thou shalt not answer questionnaires<br />Or quizzes upon World-Affairs,<br /> Nor with compliance<br />Take any test. Thou shalt not sit<br />With Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-26991868613649515332013-01-04T13:37:50.669-06:002013-01-04T13:37:50.669-06:00@Thomas, I had to Google this, and I learned. I sh...@Thomas, I had to Google this, and I learned. I should pay more attention to Auden because every time someone quotes him it leads to me learning shocking and useful facts. I will have to post on this.Professor Zerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909063513731044826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-80681669331233851072013-01-04T01:35:33.103-06:002013-01-04T01:35:33.103-06:00I was thinking of Auden's distinction between ...I was thinking of Auden's distinction between the lyres of Apollo and Hermes. But it's probably true that Beckett was thinking of Apollo/Dionysus.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-49674446041503699452013-01-03T14:56:54.188-06:002013-01-03T14:56:54.188-06:00I suppose, if one believes in the birth of tragedy...I suppose, if one believes in the birth of tragedy. I OD'd on it because it was the Bible of one of my graduate programs in Brazil the way Auerbach's Mimesis was at Berkeley. Everything avant-garde, and almost everything "truly" Brazilian, was carnavalesque (Bakhtin) and also Dionysian.<br /><br />I cannot stand JRJ, either. He has to be replaced with Lugones or somebody like Professor Zerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909063513731044826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-40090097271082091012013-01-03T11:00:03.727-06:002013-01-03T11:00:03.727-06:00Juan Ramón was an "Apollonian" artist, p...Juan Ramón was an <a href="http://pangrammaticon.blogspot.dk/2011/06/under-axe-of-apollo.html" rel="nofollow">"Apollonian"</a> artist, perhaps?Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.com