NOBELITY OBLIGEE

NOBELITY OBLIGEE 280801 2258 I CONSIDER THAT SOME FOLKS have a particular responsibility to do what one may loosely call “good” --- I do not mean solely those of us who have been awarded a Nobel Prize, but I do assume that my audience may be presumed to consist of people who are capable of a bit more than merely to read. 020901 2232 I know no mathematics except what was forced down my throat in high school in Malden --- I mean stuff like algebra; actually, some other stuff I loved, like solid geometry, and I liked trigonometry too; and we got some math in physics class --- I had great teachers in those subjects, Miss Watkins and Mr Perry --- but in advanced math we had a monster.

Wednesday, July 2, 2003
THE FOLLOWING IS RECOMMENDED TO THOSE INTERESTED IN THE SECTION "NOBELITY OBLIGEE" (39) --- ELF: Saturday, June 14, 2003 7:30 pm In my section "CULTURE BEARER"(18) I dissect a foul article about Charles Munch, and rumor-mongering based on that article. ( It is in that section that you will get my opinions about the article by Jeffrey Mehlman which appeared some months ago in the magazine "Salmagundi" put out by Skidmore College, and available via Skidmore (not web) --- also, I comment on the stupid essay by David Weininger (based on that article and comments in the Boston Globe newspaper) which appeared on WBUR and NPR and associated websites. )
Elf (for the ambassador)

Anyway, I felt betrayed when my close friend Harold became a whiz-kid in math, and now I wish I knew calculus etc. But i love reading and trying to understand discussions about matters Einsteinian, and am these days steeping myself in comments about Einstein by Niels Bohr, whose way of writing I empathize with and emulate as it justifies the way i like to write. I had a problem in teens as to writing, in that I copied Daniel Defoe and other old-fashioned writers, including Poe; this was not considered proper.

After college and for many years, I copied the style of Herbert Marcuse, in his terse arrogant speed. But now, what with the web, I relax into more space and time for mind to stretch languidly over the continents, but maintain a love of the laconic, combined with a luxuriance I consider sybaritic when I have earned some time by concision.

Websters just want to have fun. Aha!!! Web-sters, indeed.

How about Mirriam Webster (barbarism from the publisher, of course) heh heh.

180901 1924 High culture is the province of never more than 5% of the population.

1925 Superior people have to protect themselves from the rest in every detail of life. No superior person should have been in the World Trade Center or on those planes. I ignore the Pentagon bit as a non-event for which there was no excuse at all. (I am not unsympathetic, but life is war, and adults are supposed to have noticed over the years that USA domestic air travel was a ticking bomb AND DONE SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 071001 0114 Bad thought discourages tyro intellectuals of talent, while fostering perversity of thought in the young.

1402 A large issue is the unreasoning rejection of anything Medieval; e g, the French (who tend to think in straight lines) in 1812 stopped Medieval land practices in Sicily, in the name of progress --- but taking away from the peasants certain important protections, and thus leading to mafia rule and peasant squalor. Modern political theorists abjure medieval and throw the baby out with the bath-water.

1452 Einstein was a defective person in terms of interpersonal relations, and thus in that sense an idiot (he who knows but one thing).

1454 Altho one stands on the shoulders of idiots, one should make every effort to be a mensch.

2157 The hyphen is important.

131001 1720 MUCH OF THE VALUE OF SHAKESPEARE is to emphasize the ubiquitous of true real evil people we find it hard to distrust.

1722 I feel it is my responsibility to spell it Shaksper. Do you remember Robert Ripley bit on that?

lørdag 17. november 2001 04:41 Music is an object to love. søndag 18. november 2001 04:15 “Try Ceratops!” my idea for a new soft drink--- Ceratops. 06:17 Perhaps the best time to start studying atomic physics is age ten years.

onsdag 16. januar 2002 21:10 Even the great Pythagoras suffered from what I call “Thinkism”: the fallacy that because one is a genius in one area he/she is a mavin in another, by dint of superior thinking methods . One must observe discretely, and try to evaluate each subject idiosyncratically, and avoid extending one´s methods ad infinitum into adjacent regions.

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22:43 I note and mention because I think we should, the Frank Bender report on Reality tv --- “the only intuitive forensic sculptor”!!!!!