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pat-perrin's picture
Dec.10.2012
Of Back-of-the-Book Indexes and Other Cultural Catastrophes
Someone recently referred to Wikipedia as the “end of scholarship.” I can’t remember who said it, and I can’t turn it up on Google or even on Wikipedia itself, which I guess means it might as well never have been said. But I’m sure I read it somewhere. And I’m not surprised at the sentiment. It...
robert-sward's picture
Mar.27.2009
Plato's Dialogues and the Soul
Lunch today with fellow writer at "Clouds" in Santa Cruz around the corner from Cinema 9. Friend reading Plato's Phaedrus, which, he says, makes the first mention in Western literature of "the soul", the soul as something that, following death, continues... has a separate...