[lit-ideas] The Oxford Book of Oxford
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:44:53 EDT
When I last was in Oxford I felt slightly bored one Friday evening, and
said to myself, "I'll buy a book or something" (I was staying at the
Randolph). So I walked a few 'blocks' and found this amusing volume. It's
called
"The Oxford book of Oxford" by, yes, she cares about these things, Chris,
female-author Jan Morris. She quotes a doggerel which pokes fun on, yes, Hegel:
(Dedicated to Karl Trogge).
With deep intuition and mystic rite
We worship the Absolute-Infinite,
the Universe-ego, the Plenary-Void,
The Subject-Object Identified,
the great Nothing-Something, the Being-Thought,
The mouldest the mass of Chaotic Nought,
whose beginning unended and end begun
is the One that is All,
and the All that is One.
Hail Light with Darkness joined!
Thou Potent Impotence!
Thou Quantitative Point Of All Indifference!
Great Non-Existence, passing into Being,
Thou two-fold Pole of the Electric One,
Thou Lawless Law, thou Seer all Unseeing,
Thou Process, ever doing, never done.
Thou positive negation!
Negative Affirmation!
Thou great Totality of every thing,
That never is, but ever doth become,
Thee do we sing,
The Pantheist's King,
With ceaseless bug, bug, bug,
and endless hum, hum, hum.
Professors we, From over the sea,
From the land where Professors in plenty be;
And we thrive and flourish, as well we may
In the land that produced one Kant with a K
And many Cants with a C.
J. L. Speranza
St. John's, Oxford
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