[MD] Thus spoke Lila

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Hi John,

You remind me of back in college when I had to take an English class
over the summer to fulfill a requirement.  So I took a poetry class,
thinking that I would hate it.  To my surprise, I loved it!  We were
asked to write a sonnet in some kind of format, so I chose a rebuttal
to E. A. Poe's "To Science":

Science! True daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?

Mine started as:
"And Tao Te Ching a subtle curse did spread..."

And I forget the rest.

You never know what surprises lie around the next corner for the
intellect.  I almost became a art history major at one point, until my
Dad said that I may have to get all my income from work on campus.
So, I went back to the sciences.  Never lost the eye for those things
though.  My roommate, for a couple of years, was a philosophy major.
We used to have fun, science against philosophy, and I learned a lot.
Those were the days, my friend...

Cheers,
Mark

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:00 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, you're right Mark, It's been around before.  But goodness is always
> welcome no matter how oft repeated or reformulated.
>
>
>> "When old age shall this generation waste,
>> Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
>> Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
>> "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
>>  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
>>
>>
> A profound juxtaposition of teachings for me, when I was learning about the
> philosophy of deep ecology and at the same time  taking a class in British
> literature and learning through the Romantic poets an alternative critique
> of SOM - "Sweet is the lore that nature brings, our meddling intellect,
> destroy the beautous forms of things, we murder to dissect".  The two
> different criticisms, Wordsworth and Blake AND  the logical objections to
> anthropocentrism have always been married in my mind ever since.
>
> Sometimes they squabble, but hey, that's marriage for you.
>
> "How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
> Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?"
>
> Yours,
>
> John
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