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Barbara, are you watching over my shoulder ? We can't possibly be on the same wave-length, can we ? Here is something I've been repeatedly listening to today : Vivi, Tiranno ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87r-NU7S81g&feature=related 'ave a heart, luv, an' save the tyrant, he cannae help it ?! M.

I wait to hear from you. I bet you wait with baited breath ! OK, some running thoughts.... About your development into a philosopher ( at the end of Chapter 5 ? ) ; and the point where you 'crossed the colour lone '...and became a philosopher ( ? Ch 1, 1963/4 ). Perhaps this illustrates well philos...

Consciousness and the Novel - David Lodge Of particular interest, Chapter 10 - Kierkegaard for Special Purposes. This is where Lodge describes his own creative process. Writing as and in ' Therapy ' - he draws out the parallels between his character 'Tubby' and Kierkegaard. It was the theme of depre...

Barbara Another day.... I have to go out soon. I need to talk with you more later. However, my first thought this morning was your strategy in all of these posts. Type, type, typing - perhaps reinforcing the idea that dialogue is required. ' Language is an art, not words thrown down anyhow, not word...

I think I now know the question to Douglas Adams answer of 42.

What a tease, but tell me please....
would it put me at ease
on my settee whilst
sipping my tea ?

Currently on Amazon for £ 4 -ish. Another one for the shelf ? Groaning...

Barbara

Apologies for the K.I.S.S. - it was Keep It Simple and Short

So much for my assumptions of the type of book you are writing....
Either way, I blush at my arrogance.

I look forward to reading your story.

All the best
M.

How can I persuade you my ideas are not mere ideal ? Ah - ' Persuasion' - I like a good story. It is not the quality of your ideas I need to be persuaded of, if I need persuading... What does your 'mere ideal' mean here anyway ? It is the substance - your ideas of the ideal - eg of a 'true' philoso...

:D Why ? Is it because a true philosopher is like ' Proper Tea '... much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~A.A. Milne Would you describe yourself as a mature and true philosopher, and what makes you think so ? Is the best philosopher, the one drunk first thing ...

Dreamers have a habit of rejoicing before they have discovered any means of effecting their dreams, their wishes -they would rather not tire themselves thinking about the labor they assume already they been granted. They delight in what they mean to do when their dream has comes true wander in the ...

Drawing a few threads together - eg recent PN'ers thoughts on Nietzsche...the way to study/learn philosophy....the rewards - I googled ' Nietzsche in tune' just for fun and found : http://iph.fsu.edu/interculture/pdfs/mccoppin%20nietzsche%20existentialism.pdf I've only had a quick skim over, there's...

Those impelled to learn and never satisfied are justly called philosopher. or gluttons for punishment :D Strangely enough when I looked up 'Impulsion' - it took me to a wiki article on horse racing ! ' Impulsion in a horse is a releasing of energy stored by engagement...good riding is needed to cre...

To bring my art into actuality is not a chance accident is through study and understanding, not dragging my feet which is something inherent in all of us. Why do you think that feet-dragging, dilly-dallying, shilly-shallying procrastination is ' inherent' in all of us ? Is delay some kind of natura...

Clint sings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFp2OgH9SuE

With less on my mind… Hear a quick 2.38 mins of ‘ Prisons’ by Eddie Reader, coming in at no 5 : http://www.eddireader.co.uk/discs/peacetime.html lyrics by John Douglas Decisions grow into visions End up in prisons Little decisions. I've gotta find me a preacher man I've gotta make decisions Maybe he...

From the above 'song' :

'...if the stance you take starts playing different tunes...'

I think that this is what I like about PhilosophyNow.
My head fairly swivels to the symphonies of provocative devilishnessness

Which aria now ? Whose voice ?