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This section, showing how language has shifted from metaphorical, poetic usage to a more literal usage (with the advent of the scientific revolution) is quite good. Now I understand more clearly the impetus of the Romantic poets in using such flowery language. They were really revivalists or preservationists. They didn't strive for something new (though they effectively created it), they strove for the old tongue.
— Jun 16, 2020 10:45AM
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Forrest
is on page 118 of 145
This book will bear repeated re-reads. It deserves such, particularly the current chapter. I feel, while reading it and thinking about it, that a revelation of sorts is happening, but it's really a reawakening of feelings inside me that I haven't felt since my early childhood. These are powerful words and I will return to them, frequently. Something has been restored in me. Wonder, I think.
— Jun 25, 2020 05:24PM
Forrest
is on page 106 of 145
Hmm. This is not going the direction I anticipated. I need to think about what Lachman's goal is with this chapter.
— Jun 24, 2020 10:49AM
Forrest
is on page 74 of 145
There is no outer world until we complete it with our inner one.
Note: this paragraph is a central thesis. Hugely important!
— Jun 20, 2020 06:38PM
Note: this paragraph is a central thesis. Hugely important!
Forrest
is on page 72 of 145
Goethe picking fights with Newton about color. Where's the popcorn? This should be fun to watch!
— Jun 19, 2020 10:43AM
Forrest
is on page 62 of 145
The divinatory experience of Goethe in relation to Strasbourg cathedral's architecture cannot be overstated.
I observed it so long and so attentively and I bestowed on it so much affection that it decided at the end to reveal to me its manifest secret.
— Jun 18, 2020 10:44AM
I observed it so long and so attentively and I bestowed on it so much affection that it decided at the end to reveal to me its manifest secret.
Forrest
is on page 54 of 145
I've read my share of treatises on linguistics and, in particular, arguments around the "Ur" language or Adamic language. I had often wondered why it was such a big deal. Seemed like a purely academic exercise, mental masturbation. Now, however, with Lachman's insight, I see that it is far, far more than that. It becomes a question of how we interface with "reality" and how it interfaces with us. It is profound!
— Jun 16, 2020 04:22PM
Forrest
is on page 36 of 145
Now we get into the meat: Locke's and Decartes' agreements and disagreements, the inner versus the outer "self," and, most important to my mind, but only mentioned in passing, the fundamental difference between "fantasy" (collage-like constructions of what we observe) and "imagination" (something else entirely, something that emerges from within us, not as a collection of things from without).
— Jun 16, 2020 06:36AM
Forrest
is on page 28 of 145
Made it all the way to page 28 without having to read a sentence out loud multiple times in order to understand it. This is way easier than Deleuze! I think, though, that the philosophical morass is about to get thicker.
— Jun 15, 2020 10:43AM
