Book meme. Stolen from dakishimetai

May 22, 2004 23:20

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1 dog of war let loose... awesome mfeltes83 May 23 2004, 19:37:37 UTC
I rolled over and looked at the time - 5.44 a.m. I have relikes and pardon in my male. But I have trouble conceiving how, in a century where people take pride in fine sorts of knowledge, there are not to be found two closely united men - rich, one in money, the other in genius, both loving glory and aspiring for immortality - one of whom sacrifices twenty thousand crowns of his goods and the other ten years of his life for a famous voyage around the world, in order to study, not always rocks and plants, but, for once, men and mores, and who, after so many centuries used to measure and examine the house, would finally be of a mind to want to know its inhabitants. In every one of his paintings of this kind, the struggle between harmony and disharmony is dramatically fought, with harmony always the sure but precarious victor. How could it have been otherwise when our ways of knowing are such an important part of our ways of participating in the social world?

Man, that's long. It was the Rousseau that did it. The sentences are from, in order, Through A Window by Jane Goodall, "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer (in the Norton Anthology of Poetry), "Discourse on the Origin of Inequality" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (in the collection The Basic Political Writings), Learning To Look, by Joshua C. Taylor, and "Conclusion: Epistemological Questions" by Sandra Harding (from the collection Feminism and Methodology).

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Re: 1 dog of war let loose... awesome annekate May 23 2004, 20:14:23 UTC
Bah. Not a single graphic novel in the lot ;)

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