[lit-ideas] Re: Milton translated (as prose?)
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:41:12 -0330
I read Descartes in my grade 11 English course, hidden away in the back row. I
can't remember what everyone else was reading. It was my first encounter with
Germanic sentence structure and really poor philosophical arguments. What
turned out to be my future philosophical interests now require my eternal
gratitude for that early exposure to both features of the Cartesian corpus.
Walter O
MUN
Quoting Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>Aren't the facts of the matter that very few
> Americans will ever read Milton and that Milton's world
> and language are slipping beyond the same sort of
> horizon that now separates most of us from Beowulf, the
> Canterbury Tales, even a lot of Shakespeare?
>
>
> Paraphrasing Marcus Aurelius, Shakespeare has Hamlet
> say: "For there is nothing either good or bad, but
> thinking makes it so."
>
> If you expect and pander to a doofus nation, surely it
> more easily devolves into one. In fact, I know many
> people who have read all of Milton, Shakespeare, and
> even the Canterbury Tales in Middle English. Some are
> in high school, some in college, some in non-humanities
> professions.
>
> A bunch of passive pajama-clad sheep --attention span
> max 13 minutes -- ready to be slaves to globalist
> dictatorship and X-Box? It ain't necessarily so. No
> pain no gain. Excellent things should be as Spinoza
> said they were, as difficult as they are rare.
>
> Enough with the quotes already,
> Eric
>
>
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