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Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago

Here is part 2 of the previous post ….

If Miss O’Connor popped out of the grave today, what would surprise her most about the Church?

I think probably the disunity, the near-sundering of the American Church. I think she would be horrified, and probably most of all by the nuns, by what happened to the Georgia nuns, to the Louisiana nuns, and I…[Read more]

Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago

Hello All,
I hope you enjoy reading this discussion between Scott Walter and Walker Percy. I’ll try to soon post a piece by Percy entitled “Diagnosing the Modern Malaise”. The thought that there might be some interest in these was prompted a statement made by Dr. Farrell in the current Dialog. In the Dialog Dr. Farrell said that more and more…[Read more]

Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

… Alaric is closer than we think …

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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

… more wasted time, money and energy … nothing but a turning away of mind from serious concerns …

From a speech by T. R. —
“I naturally take an interest in it because I started it . . . the Panama Canal wouldn’t have been started if I hadn’t taken hold of it. . . . I took a trip to the Isthmus, started the canal and then left Con…[Read more]

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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

I think Daniel was referring to the Oxford Handbooks Series …
https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-handbooks-ohbk/?cc=us&lang=en&

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Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago

Hello All,

In the most recent Dialog (Dialogue 282 – Cultural Traditionalism vs. The Old Gods) Dr. Farrell makes the comment that certain human actions (e.g. mass murder, genocide) dehumanize both the perpetrator and the victim. In relation to this he mentions Edith Wyschograd’s fine book Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass D…[Read more]

Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago

… and this might be of interest if only because of by whom it was (allegedly) written.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/henry-kissinger-ai-could-mean-the-end-of-human-history/559124

Enjoy!

Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

Hello Dana,
You’re welcome. 🙂

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Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago

… and with all the discussion in the most recent Dialog concerning Modernism …

http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html

… might be of interest to some ..

Cheers.

Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago

Hello All,

Given all of the discussion and interest concerning Affektenlehre …

A book, quite informative and readable, about Baroque music
Harnoncourt, Nikolaus (1988), Reinhard G. Pauly, ed., Baroque Music Today: Music As Speech, translated by Mary O’Neill, Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, ISBN 978-0-931340-91-8

OBITUARIES: Nikolaus…[Read more]

Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

… possibly a duet with E. Power Biggs? 🙂 … preferably the Gigue from the French Suites No. 5. Natalie was able to perform with King Cole. This would be technology put to a good use.

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Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago

… giving up on trying to Post the end of the Ketner piece. The entire piece is available on-line. You can find it by searching by Ketner’s name or the title.

Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago

Thanks for the info. Margaret. 🙂

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Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago

… still will not take entire Post. Maybe tomorrow.

Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago

Finally comes the last turn, the transform. When the novelist’s unique internal diagram or the reader’s fictional world is active, and the heart is open, Walker Percy, the open-heart surgeon, adds a revealing new relation in the fictional world, and the reader immediately is aware of the parallel relation in their own personal internal world; and…[Read more]

Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago

This is Part III (the final part) apologies for having to break this up in order to post. … Begin with the Post two Posts below this one, then read the one below this one, then this one. Enjoy!
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Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago

… Still unable to post to Wall. Will try again tomorrow.

Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago

Well … for some unknown reason the site is refusing to Post Part III. I’ll try to Post the remainder later today. Apologies.

Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago

This is Part II of the piece by Ketner below … Read the Post below first … Enjoy!
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In this context I will ask you to consider two remarks by Peirce. The first gives us a useful clue; it is from Peirce’s heretofore lost Cambridge Conferences…[Read more]

Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago

In response to an article posted by Kahlypso on the consideration of the addition of Lithium to water supplies I replied …

This story has already been told by Walker Percy in his novel The Thanatos Syndrome (1987). It has it all … drugs in the water supply, pedophiles, child molesters, Nazis … who could ask for more? His novel Love in the Rui…[Read more]

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