MDDM23: The Old Mad Philosopher Story

[Dave Monroe]

"''Twas his own Hubris,-- the old mad Philosopher
story, we all know, meddl'd where he shouldn't have,
till laws of the Unforeseen engag'd,--'" (M&D, Ch. 37,
p. 373)

Main Entry: hu·bris 
Pronunciation: 'hyü-br&s
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek hybris
Date: 1884
: exaggerated pride or self-confidence

E.g. ...

Herr Doktor Johann Faustus ...

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/faust.html

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/16Jh/Faustus/fau_df0.html

The English Faust Book (1592) ...

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=1999.03.0001

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1588) ...

http://www.bartleby.com/19/2/

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/faustus.html

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1808, 1833) ...

http://www.bartleby.com/19/1/

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/faustidx.html

http://www.gutenberg.aol.de/goethe/faust1/faust_to.htm

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818, 1831) ...

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new?id=SheFran&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public

http://www.literature.org/authors/shelley-mary/frankenstein/index.html

Et soforthiam ...

http://www.csuchico.edu/~goulding/faust/faustlinks.htm

Up to and including Jan Svankmajer's Faust (1994) ...

http://www.illumin.co.uk/svank/films/faust/faust.html

And recall ...

"If our world survives, the next great challenge to
watch out for will come - you heard it here first -
when the curves of research and development in
artificial intelligence, molecular biology and
robotics all converge. Oboy. It will be amazing and
unpredictable, and even the biggest of brass, let us
devoutly hope, are going to be caught flat-footed. It
is certainly something for all good Luddites to look
forward to if, God willing, we should live so long."

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html

Sorry, out of sequence, forgot I had this one ...


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