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Jul 25, 2007 15:12

O Lord, how marvelous is Thy face; Thy face, which a young man, if he strove to imagine it, would conceive as a youth's; a full-grown man, as manly; an aged man as an aged man's! Who could imagine this sole pattern, most true and most adequate, of all faces--of all even as of each--this pattern so very perfectly of each as if it were of none other ( Read more... )

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bramio July 26 2007, 12:01:54 UTC

Ah, Cusanus. Negative theology. Docta ignorantia. I wrote a few short scraps of thoughts about him. It are a pity you dont read Duts.

auraphage July 26 2007, 20:02:09 UTC

I want to read your scraps, Bram. Translate them for me, please! I am the wretch at the table of your mind, scrabbling for crumbs. They will offer me the nutrition I crave (here I indicate my skeletal ribcage and wasted neck), and will enlighten me more on this personage upon whom I am almost completely ignorant. Nor do I know anything about his theological opinions, which only whets my hunger the more.

Joseph Campbell is awesome. You saw the huge discussion the topic of Him sparked on David journal, no? Even if one doesn't agree with him, he sure brings up a lot of interesting thought in people. I agree with him unquestioningly and reflexively; he is my Jesus.

Your Jesus. bramio July 26 2007, 20:27:12 UTC

Joseph Campbell. I'm not really a fan. I remember starting in The Hero with a Thousand Faces and quickly putting it down again because I was put of by something. Probably his over-explicative or just simply too popular style. (Hiro and I have fights over this. She will defend her beloved American popular scientists and other -ists, saying it's wonderful of them to try and write for a broad audience, and I just scornfully look at her and her books (one eyebrow raised, you know the deal.) The thing is, even though I do agree it's wonderful of them to do what they do, that doesn't make them any less illegible for me.)

(So, long story short [mind you, I'm not completely sober as I write this]: I think Campbell c.s. are great because they can spark an interest, but once that interest is sparked, I do think it's important to move on and dig deeper into the subject ( ... )

auraphage July 26 2007, 21:03:22 UTC

Ah, I very much agree that it's vital to move more deeply into whatever subject matter you're dealing with in reading any broadly painted, popular nonfiction. It would be silly to simply digest one or two books in that type of style and then consider oneself thoroughly educated on the subject ( ... )