Ha!
Well, I was sure wrong about student attendance. Good lecture! Listen for 10 minutes, and then see if you can stop!
See, you guys can ignore posts like this, and it won't affect your grade. But it just might affect your life!
See, you guys can ignore posts like this, and it won't affect your grade. But it just might affect your life!
posted by Anthony at
7:59 PM
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He used the "paper clip" mystery as a hook to get the audience to become interested in his story; he didn't say he'd explain what it was for - he said maybe if you listened you'd figure it out and tell him.
I'd say his main point was that good books each present a worldview which we could struggle to understand (he actually attributed this point to Schopenhauer in the talk, which is a probably good example of how you can hear something and not really understand it - no one asked him who Schopenhauer was, afterward and I doubt they all knew) and which could in fact challenge and change us.
His point was very similar to Cronon's suggestion that we "find out what's so neat about what the other person does" except he argued we should interact with books in that way.
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Anthony, at Sat Sep 09, 02:09:00 AM 2006
Here are some short comments and longer comments by Schopenhauer on literature.
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Anthony, at Sat Sep 09, 02:24:00 AM 2006
oooh! oooh! You should e-mail him and tell him.
By
Anthony, at Sat Sep 09, 06:29:00 PM 2006
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