Title: Love Golf Location: Aita, Hiroshima Description: David, Jaime, Simon, Rikki meet in town to catch the Asu Tram to Kamiyasu to play golf at Love Golf… Start Time: 10:30 Date: 2010-10-30 === REPORT I made a return trip to Love Golf yesterday for the first time since the mid [Read more…]
Walter Kaufmann is an excellent teacher. In Goethe, Kant, and Hegel: Discovering the Mind, vol 1 he lays out clearly the way in which Goethe advanced our understanding of the mind and how Kant, despite his “making a clean sweep of so many fruitless speculations” (p. 5), impeded it, and [Read more…]
Since my previous blog post I’ve finished reading Discovering the Mind, Concerning E. M. Forster, and A Great Unrecorded History. I’m about a third of the way through Atheist Delusions and have also reached the 15th canto of Tasso’s Liberation of Jerusalem after temporarily setting it aside. Oh, and Eileen-chan [Read more…]
The malice of the forces of darkness and the arrival of four books and the latest LRB have caused The Liberation of Jerusalem to be temporarily postponed… Firstly, Doubt’s Boundless Sea, Skepticism & Faith in the Renaissance, by Don Cameron Allen, arrived early last week. I ordered this book because [Read more…]
In the fourth Canto of The Liberation of Jerusalem, the seductive Syrian sorceress Armida is sent to charm the Christians and succeeds in leading a number of frail knights astray. ne nos inducas in tentationem sed libera nos a malo But where is the Christian knight of our company who [Read more…]
I am reading my way through Max Wickert‘s powerful modern verse translation of Tasso’s La Gerusalemme Liberata, a translation that is faithful to the original and at the same time immensely readable. The dynamic opening stanza of the The Liberation of Jerusalem, its fidelity to the original combined with its [Read more…]
In the last fifty or sixty years a great erosion of our English language heritage has taken place and at the heart of this loss lies the attempt to render the Holy Bible as well as church liturgies and hymns in a form of English that is supposedly modern and easier for ordinary people to understand.
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