NPPF - Canto Four

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 1 of 3
I suppose you're all waiting for me to find AF in hinge and screw affair.
There's a ton of interesting terms, it would take a work-week to look up.


L835 - beauty

I'm a latecomer to philosophy, but isn't Beauty, or aesthetics,
what one appeals to, if unable to justify valuation rationally?

Emily Dickinson associates Beauty (AC I say) with Truth (AF):

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Dickinson/i-died-f
or-beauty
Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
> I died for beauty but was scarce
> Adjusted in the tomb,
> When one who died for truth was lain
> In an adjoining room.
> He questioned softly why I failed?
> "For beauty," I replied.
> "And I for truth,--the two are one;
> We brethren are," he said.
> And so, as kinsmen met a night,
> We talked between the rooms,
> Until the moss had reached our lips,
> And covered up our names.


L874 - midsummer

Surfing midsummer mostly brought up MND:
This MND idea resembles the PF Smith and Schmidt idea:

http://www.pathguy.com/mnd.htm
Enjoying "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare
> Hippolyta: More literal-minded than Theseus. She cannot
> bring her imagination to consider a bad play good. But she
> notes that the lovers' tale of paranormal experience in the
> woods presents "great constancy" -- what paranormal
> investigators look for today. Like most of us, Hippolyta
> decides, "If they're all telling the same story, there may
> be something to it."
  ...
> What Does It All Mean?
> I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it
> was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this
> dream. -- Bottom


L894 - Marat

Marat's killer Charlotte Corday interests the N list:
They say VN alludes to Corday often, elsewhere.

http://arthistory.about.com/library/blmarat.htm
The Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David Study Guide

http://perso.club-internet.fr/seni/life_of_marat.html
Jean Paul Marat: His Life

http://felix2.2y.net/english/jpmie.html
Jean Paul Marat
> 20 years before the french revolution, Marat wrote the
> chains of slavery in England where he attacks the tyranny of
> the princes.
(...summarized there)

http://www.swil.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/modwest/French%20Rev./marat.html
French Revolution/Jean-Paul Marat
> The longest lasting legacy that Marat gave to the Revolution
> and to the Western World is his contribution to nationalism.

http://members.chello.nl/jsteenis/power2.htm
Jean-Paul Marat
> Only the masses, the people without power, can belong to the
> autonomous club of Marat. When there are enough clubs they
> will form a new controlling fourth power next to the
> existing Trias Politica.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1389/646786.html
Arguments for the Ages: Jean-Paul Marat
> Editor's note: Among the most strident and violent of the
> voices in the French Revolution was that of Jean-Paul Marat
> (1743-1793), a Swiss-born doctor-turned-journalist. Before
> his assassination by Charlotte Corday in 1793, who stabbed
> him in his bath, he lay much of the foundation for the Reign
> of Terror that followed.

http://www.asis.com/sfhs/women/charlotte.html
Charlotte Corday's Murder of Jean-Paul Marat
> Proof of her romantic dreams is in her statement that she
> had intended to stab Marat in the hall of the Convention.
> She had imagined herself stabbing Marat in the heart right
> in front of the entire Committee.
...
> Despite her valiant efforts, Corday's attempts to save
> France were in vain. Instead of ending the reign of Marat
> she made him die a martyr. His funeral was an extravagant
> ceremony and his remains were hysterically worshipped.
...
> Vergniaud said, "She has killed us, but she has taught us
> how to die." She died bravely on the guillotine four days
> after the murder of Marat.

 
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