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Mar. 6th, 2006 11:59 pm
High today, here: 1. Dewpoint then: -10. High dewpoint: -8.
High today in TO: 0. Dewpont then: -11. High dewpoint: -9.
Low today on the balcony: -6.3. High: 0.4. Currently: -6.3.
Read Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children last night. Can't say it was particularly enjoyable or enriching. There's a certain sort of attitude to it that grates on me, but I don't quite know what it is. Clowns come to mind, but I don't know why. Groucho Marx, too, but maybe just because Brecht is a Marxist. That was the first thing I knew about Brecht. The second thing was that his plays employ "alienation devices". The third was that Antonin Artaud thought his style was unhelpful toward the aim of achieving a desirable revolution. The third was that he wrote the words to "Mack the Knife". The latter didn't cohere well with the image I'd built up of the Marxist playwright who employs "alienation devices" and is disapproved of by Antonin Artaud. But this here here is all slapstickish. Slapstickish with people being killed. It's, you know, supposed to be against war, but I imagine Alex and his droogies getting a kick out of it.
Managed 34 more pages of Veyne today, which leaves 34 more pages to go. Interesting reference to a book by Flavius Josephus called Jewish Antiquities, which gives a political-critical reading, of the kind that writers of the period were giving of Greek and Roman mythology, of the Moses story.
Something I forgot about from Maclean's: a piece by Andrew Potter--co-author, with Joe Heath, of Rebel Sell, and philosophy prof at Trent, who has recently been installed as a columnist by the Ken Whyte junta--on how people don't care about the Olympics after the end of the Cold War took the political rah rah out of it. He suggests eliminating the countries aspect of it (which has struck me as not a bad idea, though I don't know how you'd organize team sports ... though team sports have always struck me as kind of out of place at the Olympics anyway) and replacing countries with sponsors. Like, Team Microsoft, Team Exxon, and so forth. I am not sure to what extent this was meant seriously, except that it's evidently meant to be seriously annoying.
Duck/Rabbit paper accepted for CPA. Whoopdeedoodle! So, there's this year's ticket to the Congress. Which would be a bit more exciting if it weren't at York. No vacation this year. It's nice to snap off the losing streak, anyway, bien sur.
High today in TO: 0. Dewpont then: -11. High dewpoint: -9.
Low today on the balcony: -6.3. High: 0.4. Currently: -6.3.
Read Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children last night. Can't say it was particularly enjoyable or enriching. There's a certain sort of attitude to it that grates on me, but I don't quite know what it is. Clowns come to mind, but I don't know why. Groucho Marx, too, but maybe just because Brecht is a Marxist. That was the first thing I knew about Brecht. The second thing was that his plays employ "alienation devices". The third was that Antonin Artaud thought his style was unhelpful toward the aim of achieving a desirable revolution. The third was that he wrote the words to "Mack the Knife". The latter didn't cohere well with the image I'd built up of the Marxist playwright who employs "alienation devices" and is disapproved of by Antonin Artaud. But this here here is all slapstickish. Slapstickish with people being killed. It's, you know, supposed to be against war, but I imagine Alex and his droogies getting a kick out of it.
Managed 34 more pages of Veyne today, which leaves 34 more pages to go. Interesting reference to a book by Flavius Josephus called Jewish Antiquities, which gives a political-critical reading, of the kind that writers of the period were giving of Greek and Roman mythology, of the Moses story.
Something I forgot about from Maclean's: a piece by Andrew Potter--co-author, with Joe Heath, of Rebel Sell, and philosophy prof at Trent, who has recently been installed as a columnist by the Ken Whyte junta--on how people don't care about the Olympics after the end of the Cold War took the political rah rah out of it. He suggests eliminating the countries aspect of it (which has struck me as not a bad idea, though I don't know how you'd organize team sports ... though team sports have always struck me as kind of out of place at the Olympics anyway) and replacing countries with sponsors. Like, Team Microsoft, Team Exxon, and so forth. I am not sure to what extent this was meant seriously, except that it's evidently meant to be seriously annoying.
Duck/Rabbit paper accepted for CPA. Whoopdeedoodle! So, there's this year's ticket to the Congress. Which would be a bit more exciting if it weren't at York. No vacation this year. It's nice to snap off the losing streak, anyway, bien sur.
