VV(7) Pig on Sartre (engineering poetry)

[jbor]

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>From: <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>


> Recall that T.S. Eliot was at first a student of
> Philosophy.

Thanks for all the wonderful quotes Terrance. Here's another you might like:

    More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry
    to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without
    poetry our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now
    passes for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
                                            M. Arnold 1888

best


~~~
    "By 1945, the factory system - which, more than
     any piece of machinery, was the real and major
     result of the Industrial Revolution - had been
     extended to include the Manhattan Project, the
     German long-range rocket program and the death
     camps, such as Auschwitz.It has taken no major
     gift of prophecy to see how these three curves
      of development might plausibly converge, and
                before too long. ... "
                                 (T. Pynchon, 1984)
                                                    ~~~