How are they all connected? Well they've all been in my day today!
Annabelle is getting a lovely tune up. =] Is exceptionally beautiful. And there was nothing wrong with the action, it was just that my bench was not at the right height and distance and I was killing my wrist trying to play with bad posture. James is getting tuned too. =]
It's funny how things connect because I'm going for my second time through Divine Commedy, this time with Esolen as my guide and translator. And his introduction starts right off with the Phaedrus!!! I was pretty much ecstatic for an hour before I could calm down enough to read on! =] What are the chances that Phaedrus was the Wheatstone text and that Esolen had it in mind when he wrote his intro back in 2001? God is good is he not? And the thing is that Esolen thinks Dante totally agrees with Plato's view of the goal of human life. You shall have to read the intro to Inferno or ask me about it in person, its too amazing for a post!!!
Okay and George Steiner who was this amazingly smart person. And I'm reading through his book Errata and I came across this amazing passage:
"I define a 'classic,' in literature, in music, in the arts, in philosophic argument, as a signifying form which 'reads' us. It reads us more than we read (listen to, perceive) it. There is nothing paradoxical, let alone mystical, in this definition. Each time we engage with it, the classic will question us. It will challenge our resources of consciousness and intellet, of mind and body (so much of primary aesthetic and even intellectual response is bodily). The classic will ask of us: 'have you understood?'; 'have you re-imagined responsibly?'; 'are you prepared to act upon the questions, upon the potentialities of transformed, enriched being which I have posed?'"
-George Steiner, Errata
And Phillipians is quickly becoming a favorite of mine because its just so Jolly. In fact, I was just telling a friend how it may be one of the most Jolly books, if not the Jolliest in the Bible. =]
Okay, stop reading bad grammarful ramble and go read something great!
Happy Summering!
2 comments:
I like your "bad grammarful rambles" because they inspire me to read something great, Gabriel! Could a blog post be considered "great" because it inspires one to do greater things? Hmm....:)
Speaking of grand pianos, they were selling/displaying grand pianos (not quite as grand as Annabelle) at Costco today.
Interesting...I remember you posted one that made me speechlessly in awe of you for a while. =P Heh. I thought it was great because, yes it did inspire me. =]
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