[lit-ideas] On the Art of Living

From: "Torgeir Fjeld" <phatic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:14:00 +0100
Georg Johannesen:
___ On Love (Sunday) ___

Li Ho complained to his emperor: Long poems
Wore my clothes out, short poems made my hair turn grey
Court and government planned an eighth day of the week

The mammoth on the wall of a cave crushed the glass elephant
To hold a rock of this magnitude in your hands is
To hold the unborn cranium of a calf

I wrote poems that were too long with words that were too short
On the divided kingdom of the sky and the circles of an empty well
The poem is complete; the hue of my hair has changed

(From _Ars Vivendi_, 1999)


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [lit-ideas] "De vita et moribus" -- Rees-Mogg (from Who's
  Who)
  Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:15:24 EST

J. Evans quotes: "Lord Rees-Mogg,
council chairman.  A list of unacceptable words has been compiled, in
order
of their power to shock, in a survey by the Council of 300 viewers.  At
his
briefing in London yesterday, Lord Rees-Mogg disclosed that the C-word
came
top of the list, followed by two American-derived graphically sexual
terms
of abuse, the M-phrase and another C-phrase.  The F-word ranked fifth."
Interesting. Interesting peerage, too. Rees is of course Welsh, but I'm
not sure about (i) Mogg and  (ii) the hyphenation. So, I'd like to know
"e:" of this Lord. I wonder if it's a new peerage, and if  not, where the
family seat is. From Who's Who: "Hobbies: gardening" "is the author of a
"List of Unspeakable Words" for the Broadcasting Company. A civil
servant". I love an English lord! I notice that while Diogenes Laertius
entitled his book, "Bioi" i.e. Lives (of philosophers), when Burleigh
(the Irishman) translated that into neo-Latin, it appeared as "De vitae
et moribus" -- which is odd but funny, because I can't think how _death_
be thought as having the same importance as _life_. It is true that, as
Long mentions in his intro to Laertius, Laertius is always interested in
providing an account of the death of the philosopher, but still -- the
nounification of "the death of..." seems too tragical for philosophers,
like, say Wittgenstein, or Popper. Cheers, JL Re: Who's Who in Erotic
Pornography author of "Mary Whitehouse" The Life, Death, and Opinions",
etc.


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