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stay-at-home/school dad | public library power user | always making more granola | reading 吴承恩 (Wu Cheng'en) and Shakespeare with local high schoolers
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That is a real possibility
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For Augustine, the end of human life is not the purgation of desire, but its consummation:
"For when God will be all in all, then nothing will be lacking to their desire."
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This is straightforwardly a critique of Confucianism, but it also strikes me as a critique of the oppressive actions of Warring States regimes, as well.
There is a strand of Zhuangist Daoism that is essentially asking, "How does one survive in a brutal carceral state?"
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In Zhuāngzǐ, Ruist (Confucian) and Mohist teachings are repeatedly likened to the brutal methods of torture and punishment employed by the Warring States period regimes.
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☝🏽It's funny to me that Martin Luther's response to this sort of behavior was to nail stuff to doors and pick a fight, while the Daoist response was, Go wander in the woods and be as generally useless as possible
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Wow!!!
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(These are optional papers, by the way, so there's no incentive to use AI.)
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this looks so tasty
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incredible!
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I WISH! But I would never presume to ascend such mystic heights of musicianship
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I love when I find triangles like this—a new source that is completely outside of the A vs. B conflicts I normally inhabit.
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I am often surprised by how Alter's translation choices are *less* visceral, *less* vivid, and *less* immediate than other translations.
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The past is plural, and any attempt to conserve ancient values is itself a rupturing or synthesizing of the past and a movement of the mutable self, conducted from within an interpretive community, before the face of God.
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This is one of the reasons why I call myself a "polyphonic traditionalist" instead of a "conservative."
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But retrieval is different from conservation in that by journeying into ancient texts, we may be surprised by what we find. It may even directly contradict our previously held "conservative" values.
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The latter is more honest about the fallibility, mutability, and inconstancy of human nature.
We do not—indeed cannot—preserve ancient values. In pilgrimage into ancient texts, we are changed.
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Both are oriented toward the past, and both are even concerned in some sense with preserving the past.
But there is a difference between fighting to "conserve" values from the past, and journeying into the narrative worlds in which those values are ostensibly to be found.
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Yes! Her voice is not for everyone (like Joanna), but there is something otherworldly about it
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Okay, then how do you all feel about Texas Gladden, one of Joanna Newsom's influences? (This might help me understand which part of Joanna Newsom is dead to you.)
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We are just about to finish rewatching Season 1. Cannot wait to start Season 2!!!
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But in all seriousness, Gene Luen Yang's Chinese Catholic reinterpretation of the story of Monkey and the Buddha has forever enriched my reading of Psalm 139, for the better.
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Robin is/is not Cupid
Titania is/is not Diana
Bottom is/is not Apuleius/Midas/Actaeon/Paul/Balaam's Ass/The Minotaur
Quince's eggcorn "He comes to disfigure" is really a sly summary of Shakespeare's method of figuration
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Yes! Very problematic!