http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/ en-us Copyright 2007 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:53:29 +0000 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:59:58 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.Alexander PopeAh Pope, with his irresistably pithy moralities...... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/09/papal_wisdom.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/09/papal_wisdom.php Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:36:33 +0000 The way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation.Machiavelli, The Princefor after all, what use are political... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/09/princely_advice.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/09/princely_advice.php Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:39:14 +0000 hear bloody hear I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease -- a genuine, absolute disease. For everyday human existence it would more than suffice to have the ordinary share of human consciousness; that is to say,... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/09/hear_bloody_hear.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/09/hear_bloody_hear.php Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:43:19 +0000 Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.William Dement... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/10/hear_hear.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/10/hear_hear.php Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:37:49 +0000 I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air.... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/10/beautiful.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/10/beautiful.php Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:33:34 +0000 On the subject of suicide, the Koran could hardly be clearer: "Do not kill yourselves; for surely God has been merciful to you."... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/10/to_jihad_or_not_to_jihad.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/10/to_jihad_or_not_to_jihad.php Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:05:55 +0000 Adorno surely had it right when he wrote - in Minima Moralia (1951) - about those who recirculate received opinion: only what they do not need first to understand, they consider understandable; only the word coined by commerce, and really... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/10/minima_moralia.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2006/10/minima_moralia.php Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:09:54 +0000 This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in -- an interesting hole I find myself in -- fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/01/a_paragraph_on_perspective_or_why_douglas_adams_rocks.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/01/a_paragraph_on_perspective_or_why_douglas_adams_rocks.php Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:10:15 +0000 To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everythingErnest Becker... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/01/oh_yes.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/01/oh_yes.php Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:45:06 +0000 George Windsor Earl's contemporary description of the arrival of Chinese junks in the ports of Singapore during the 1830s. I LOVE it! The first junk, which arrives generally a little before Christmas, is most anxiously looked for, and when its... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/02/why_i_love_history.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/02/why_i_love_history.php Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:19:57 +0000 On Multiplicity If you imagine an ordinary moment at an intersection in New York City, a street light -- some people are stopped and others are in motion, some cars are stopped and others are in motion -- if you... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/02/on_multiplicity.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/02/on_multiplicity.php Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:19:00 +0000 The minute you start saying something, "Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!" you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/03/calvino_speaks_for_artifice.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/03/calvino_speaks_for_artifice.php Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:58:52 +0000 The languor of Youth -- how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth -- all save this -- come and go with... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/03/on_languor_and_loss.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/03/on_languor_and_loss.php Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:54:48 +0000 People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/03/yes.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/03/yes.php Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:12:46 +0000 I have often asked myself, "What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it?" Like modern loggers, did he shout "Jobs, not trees!"? Or: "Technology will solve our problems, never fear,... http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/06/the_tragedy_of_easter_island.php http://www.idlethink.com/hypomnemata/2007/06/the_tragedy_of_easter_island.php Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:53:29 +0000