I’m a Magpie
For once, my result doen’t match Bibliogal’s or Aaron’s. Hm.
Which poem are you?
Sonnet 17 by Pablo Neruda
Aw, you’re a romantic. You believe in true love and all that sort of stuff. How cute are you? To you, love is incredible and amazing.
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I’m so tired of my tendancy to overshare. I need to cultivate an air of mystery, darnit.
What a craptacular day. I wan to go home, crawl into the tub, and read me some Bonhoeffer.
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you!
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In his examination of the Greek psyche, Bruno Snell adapted this theory to account for the rise of the individual in Greek society. In Snell’s view, self-awareness, what he calls the “discovery of the mind” comes into being when desire is frustrated.
. . Love which has its course barred, and fails to reach [...]
Its always fun to argue with Brian. Limbic and Reptilian brains. Reason vs. desire. My faith in religion and philosophy vs his faith in science. Rochefort #8 vs Westmalle triple.
The reptilian brain is ’so far from the mind that ‘it doesn’t even know the head exists.’ Rationality only moves us so far. Dante must [...]
So I think I might have seen a ghost yesterday morning. I hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before (the hippies downstairs were talking long into the night – outside my bedroom witndow), and when the alarm went off, I lifted my head in that semi-somnulent, prehistoric-beast-rising-from-the-deep-to-fight-Godzilla way that bad mornings start out.
In the corner [...]
“It is the constructive task of a philosophy of a philosophy of mind to provide a set of terms in which ultimate judgements of value can be very clearly stated”
- Hampshire, Thought and Action
Wrassling with moral judgement is such a tricky task. On the one hand, we each posess (barring mental illness or injury) a [...]
I'm a librarian. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset's reflection in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and live on a boat in Sausalito, CA.